Authorities in Independence, Kansas, say a 16-year-old girl's tale of being kidnapped at gunpoint from the driveway of her home this week was a hoax.
The police and FBI said Kelsey Stelting acknowledged this morning that "the abduction she had previously reported to police did not happen."
In a written statement, law officers said the girl told them that "all of the original statements she made regarding the abduction were false and that she acted alone."
Stelting, who was missing for about 15 hours Tuesday, had said she was kept in a white van and clobbered her assailant to escape. In a 911 call to police early Tuesday, the teenager said she had been kidnapped at gunpoint from the driveway of her home, forced to run to a white van in front of a lumber yard several blocks away and then forced inside.
The FBI brought in 30 agents and other personnel to join a search that already included police and county officers, and authorities issued an Amber Alert.
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