Deputies in a parking lot at Gavilan College take notes Monday afternoon while investigating the reported kidnapping.
Photo by: Sara Suddes
During questioning, the 14-year-old who told police she had been kidnapped from Gavilan College said she lied about her allegations, police said.
"There were some holes in her story that the detectives wanted to fill and they discovered her story didn't match up," said Santa Clara County Sheriff's Sgt. Rick Sung.
Sung said his department is working with the District Attorney to determine how to deal with the girl's false police report.
"It is a crime to make a false police report," he said. "We spent a lot of time and resources investigating this matter."
The girl - a student from the Dr. T.J. Owens Gilroy Early College Academy, an advanced high school on Gavilan College's campus - went missing Monday morning, only to surface at noon when she called police to tell them she had been abducted.
The girl went to her first class this morning, Sung said. Mid-morning, staff at the school noticed she was gone, but that her books were still at the school, and reported her absence to campus security and the principal around 10 a.m. The girl initially told police that she was walking through Parking Lot C when a white cargo van backed into a parking space and three men jumped out of the rear door and pulled her into the van. The suspects drove around the city for two hours until they realized they had the wrong person, the girl told deputies.
According to the girl's story, about 12 p.m., the men dropped the girl off a few miles from campus near the intersection of U.S. 101 and Highway 25, and she called police on her cell phone. Deputies then went out to the intersection, picked her up and began an investigation.
Multiple deputies and staff from both the Early College Academy and Gavilan spent at least the rest of the day investigating the incident.
The girl described the supposed men as all white males dressed in black. One was heavy set, between 300 and 350 pounds, 6 feet tall, bald and wearing a hooded jacket. Another was heavy set, between 250 and 300 pounds and 6 feet tall. The girl only described the third as "skinny."
Sung said he did not know where the girl actually was during the time she was missing from school. As of 3 p.m. Thursday, police have not arrested her and the district attorney has not charged her with making a false police report.
Sara Suddes Sara Suddes covers Gilroy for South Valley Newspapers. You can email her or call (408) 847-7158.
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