A 39-year-old woman has been charged for allegedly filing a false kidnapping report with Chicago Police.
Veronica Fuentes faces one felony count of filing a false report, after telling police she had been attacked and kidnapped over the weekend on Chicago's West Side.
Fuentes told police she was attacked, kidnapped, and kept hidden away in a building in the city's Lawndale neighborhood for three days, but her claims are not "bona fide," police said late Thursday.
Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney said the woman recanted her story while being questioned.
Police stepped up patrols and officials boarded up an abandoned building on the 2100 block of South Pulaski Road, near a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line station, earlier in the day after a community alert was issued about the attack.
The woman told police she was waiting for a bus at about 8:45 a.m. on Saturday when she was hit over the head and dragged to an adjacent building. There, she said her attacker and three other men forced her to drink an unknown liquid from a clear vodka bottle.
She told police she managed to escape when she realized she'd been left alone. She caught a bus to Mt. Sinai Hospital where staff alerted police, officials previously said.
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"All these abandoned buildings, and this little park here, ... people can come out the bushes and get you," said a woman who identified herself as Caroline. "It's just dangerous."
Sweeney said the woman could face charges for filing a false police report.
