http://www.modbee.com/local/pmupdates/story/13663640p-14255866c.html
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The 911 call to Sacramento police dispatchers seemed real enough.
A man reported that a woman has told him she was kidnapped. He met her in a chat room on the Internet and the two had arranged a rendezvous.
"This was a kidnapping in progress," Sgt. Matt Young said of the Monday morning incident.
Dispatchers made contact with the woman on her cell phone and then alerted officers throughout south Sacramento.
"She tells us she is in the trunk of a car. She is whispering so as to not let her captors know she has a cell phone," Young said.
"She describes her abductors and their car in great detail. At one point they stopped at a McDonald's and we surround the restaurant," Young said. "Then she said they are at a house, a single-story ranch-style home with green trim. We surround that and find it empty." Nearly two hours after the call came in at 8:30 a.m., and after mutual aid was requested from the Elk Grove Police Department, the California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento Sheriff's Department, nearly 60 officers discovered the call was a hoax.
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The 911 call to Sacramento police dispatchers seemed real enough.
A man reported that a woman has told him she was kidnapped. He met her in a chat room on the Internet and the two had arranged a rendezvous.
"This was a kidnapping in progress," Sgt. Matt Young said of the Monday morning incident.
Dispatchers made contact with the woman on her cell phone and then alerted officers throughout south Sacramento.
"She tells us she is in the trunk of a car. She is whispering so as to not let her captors know she has a cell phone," Young said.
"She describes her abductors and their car in great detail. At one point they stopped at a McDonald's and we surround the restaurant," Young said. "Then she said they are at a house, a single-story ranch-style home with green trim. We surround that and find it empty." Nearly two hours after the call came in at 8:30 a.m., and after mutual aid was requested from the Elk Grove Police Department, the California Highway Patrol and the Sacramento Sheriff's Department, nearly 60 officers discovered the call was a hoax.
