11-year-old girl arrested over false report of 'kidnapped' friend in online challenge gone wrong
An 11-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with a felony after falsely reporting that her friend had been kidnapped when she was inspired by an online challenge. An 11-year- old girl has been arrested and charged with a felony after false ly report ing that her friend had been kidnapped when she was inspired by an online challenge , police say. Thinking it “would be funny,” according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office in Florida -- located approximately 60 miles northeast of Orlando on the Atlantic coast -- the 11-year-old girl sent a text to a dispatcher at the Sheriff’s Communication Center at 9:45 a.m. informing them that her 14-year-old friend had been kidnapped “by an armed male driving a white van on South I-95 in Oak Hill” and that she was following in a blue Jeep. MORE: Hundreds evacuated after teenage girl sets fire to hotel sofa following fight with mother: Police The alert prompted multiple deputies from Volusia -- along with Edgewater, New Smyrna Beach and Port Oran...