Glenn Heights Police: Kidnapping Was A Hoax
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DALLAS (CBSDFW) - It was all just a hoax.
Glenn Heights Police arrested 17-year-old Keidra Kirby for making a false police report on Thursday morning, five days after she had allegedly been kidnapped by masked men.
It was reported to Glenn Heights Police on Saturday, April 23, that Kirby was taken near her home by two men who threw her into the back of a van with another person in the driver's seat.
An Amber Alert was issued a short time later.
A few hours later, police say the teen's grandmother called 911 after getting a call from her that she was in the 3800 block of Gannon Lane in far Southwest Dallas.
Glenn Heights officers went to that location - near the intersection of I-20 and US Highway 67 - and found Kirby. She was taken back to the Glenn Heights Police Department, and officers said their investigation was continuing.
Late Saturday police had said the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were sending task force members to assist with the investigation.
Just before 10 p.m. Saturday night, Keidra's mother, Tawanna Kirby, met with reporters to urge the kidnappers to ask for her daughter's freedom.
"Whoever has her, bring her back," Kirby pleaded. "Just bring her back. Everyone is looking. I will be up all night if I have to walk the streets, drive. I'm going to. I'm going to do it. I just need my child to come back."
Police say they got the initial 911 call around 7:00 p.m. Saturday.
The man said his daughter had been taken in a white van with dark tinted windows and dual rear doors.
When officers got to the scene two witnesses confirmed they saw the the suspects take the victim.
After conducting multiple interviews, investigators determined their were inconsistencies in the statements from the two juvenile witnesses and Kirby.
Over the course of the next few days, police spoke again to the two juvenile witnesses who recanted their original statements.
According to officials, Kirby confessed that she wasn't kidnapped and had left willingly with people she knew.
Kirby is charged with a making a False Report to a Peace Officer, a Class 'B' misdemeanor.
She faces 180 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.
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