Pennsylvania Woman Arrested for Faking Her Disappearance, Prompting Intensive Manhunt
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Chloe Stein's goal was for her family not to discover that she hadn't attended classes for several years and therefore would not be able to graduate.
Chloe Stein, whose disappearance supposed her life was at risk, was arrested by the Pennsylvania police because there are indications that she faked it.
The 23 - year - old student sent a text message to her boyfriend on Monday informing him that police had stopped her on a desolate road.
The next day, after reporting to the authorities that she had not returned home, a couple of officers discovered the Volkswagen Beetle where the girl used to travel and the strange thing about the case is that her mobile phone was inside the vehicle.
So, from that moment on, tens of thousands of dollars were invested in a search aimed at finding the missing woman.
However, after 20 hours, the discovery of Chloe Stein was reported, she claimed to have escaped from a subject who was holding her at gunpoint.
For the Pennsylvania State Police investigators, the young woman's argument lacked consistent evidence and upon questioning her it was discovered that she had invented the story.
βThe video evidence, the cell phone evidence, and the information obtained during the interviews concluded that Chloe had fabricated the incident,β says part of the authorities' report shared with the media.
Chloe Stein (23) has been taken into custody on multiple charges after her incident was deemed a hoax. Police in Pennsylvania spent thousands of dollars searching for her when she was never in danger at all. Not to mention the fact that she scared the hell out of everyone.β¦ pic.twitter.com/6g2rmpHUG8
β Rose (@901Lulu) May 3, 2023,
The most scandalous thing about the case is that it was all due to the fear caused by the fact that he would not graduate that year and he tried to divert the attention of his family since he had not attended school for a year.
It later emerged that the girl had not enrolled in any Penn State campus since the fall of 2018.
Because police expended resources searching for the missing woman and even deployed a helicopter to find her, Chloe Stein was transferred to the Westmoreland County Jail in Hempfield.
It is known that the young woman must go to court for a preliminary hearing on May 25, where she faces charges of issuing false reports of minor crimes, false alarms to public security agencies, obstruction of the administration of the law, and alteration of public order.