A 19-year-old Texas woman has been arrested after she allegedly invented a fictitious child to get police to search for her friend’s stolen car.
Stacey Dashay Marie Smith called the police on Sunday, claiming that her child was in a car that was stolen from the 14000 block of Lasso Rock Drive in El Paso.
According to the authorities, the police received an initial call about the vehicle theft, and Smith then placed a second call to 911, stating that her child was missing and that she believed the person who took her friend’s car had also taken the child.
After an extensive search, the vehicle was found, but the child was not.
The investigation revealed that the child did not actually exist, and Smith had hatched the plan to get the police to locate her friend’s vehicle quickly. She was charged on Sunday for providing a false police report.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Smith was still being held at the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $5,000 bond.
The El Paso Police Department’s PIO, Adrian Cisneros, confirmed with DailyMail.com that there was an “actual theft” of the car, but no child was missing. The non-profit Crimes Against Persons Detectives were called in to assist in the investigation.
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