Teen charged with wasting police time

INVESTIGATIONS into what was thought to be the latest kidnapping in the Southland, in which a 16-year-old schoolgirl claimed she was abducted by three men and taken to Gulf City Mall, turned out to be false and the teenaged “victim” has since been charged with wasteful employment of  police time.

The 16-year-old girl is expected to appear before a San Fernando Magis-trate today to face the charge, laid by WPC Bruce of San Fernando CID, after appearing late yesterday evening before a Justice of the Peace. According to police reports, the teen, who lives at Siparia/Erin Road, came to the San Fernando CID around 10 am on Sunday and reported to Insp Brereton, Sgt Bellingy and WPC Bruce, that on Saturday night she boarded a cream-coloured Datsun 280C taxi at Chancery Lane. She said in the car at the time was a male passenger and the taxi-driver. The driver left the stand and drove to the PTSC compound near the San Fernando wharf where the male passenger alighted the vehicle and three men entered the car. The victim said that as the car was turning into Gulf City Mall, the men attacked and blindfolded her. She was later ordered to call her boyfriend from a cellular phone and ask him to meet her at the mall. The teen told police that when she called her boyfriend and asked him to meet her at the mall, he refused. She claimed the men drove for a while and dropped her off in the Marabella district. She then made her way back to San Fernando and came to the police station and reported the incident.