Police: Woman seen in kidnapping video made incident up
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Authorities say a South Carolina woman seen bound and gagged in a video sent to her mother made up the kidnapping incident and has been charged with filing a false police report.
An arrest warrant released Thursday by Simpsonville Police said Jessica Johnson insisted she was kidnapped after she was found at a motel Tuesday morning, tied up and incoherent.
Investigators said they went to the motel when Johnson's mother called 911 after being sent video of her daughter gagged, bound and crying.
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But later that day, Police Chief Steve Moore said his investigators weren't getting a lot of answers. Police refused to give more details Thursday to why Johnson would have made up her story.
It wasn't known if Johnson had a lawyer.