No charge for La Brea woman

Therefore, police said yesterday, charges are not likely to be slapped against her for wrongful use of police time.

Senior police officers from both the Southern and South-Western Divisions, told Newsday that based on information in the respective stations’ dairies, there were no reports of Barriteau, 35, stating that she was kidnapped and assaulted. “We do not have a report in any station diary recorded, in which Mr Barriteau gave a report that she had been abducted.” Barriteau’s common- law husband Devon Paul, however, had made a report on December 9 at the La Brea Police Station, that Barriteau had been missing. Then subsequently, Paul received information from friends that his common-law wife was at the San Fernando General Hospital. He then went to the hospital where he saw Barriteau, but the woman told her husband that she was abducted by a group of men, assaulted and dropped off at a parang lime at Carat Shed in Marabella.

The couple lives at Sobo Village in La Brea. Since the news broke that she was not longer missing, CCTV footage of a woman in company with an unidentified man liming at the popular Carat Shed circulated on social media.

South-Western police confirmed that when questioned about her whereabouts, Barriteau admitted that she went to lime with some friends. But the senior police officers told Newsday that La Brea Police Station have no reports of her being kidnapped or assaulted. Because she was found, investigations into the missing person’s report, the officers said, were closed.