Puyallup Police Waste Hours On Abduction Hoax

PUYALLUP, WA - Don't waste the Puyallup police department's time, or they'll charge you with a crime. That's what happened this week when a father called police to report that his son had been abducted by his drug-addict mom. The incident nearly triggered an Amber Alert before police figured out the dad had fabricated the story.

The father, who was working construction in Puyallup, called police to report that his truck had been stolen with his son inside. The father had apparently left the 7-year-old in the truck for about two hours while he went to work. He told police his estranged wife was likely the culprit.

But while the father was talking to police, the mother called the father, and police were able to ascertain that the mother and son were just shopping at the Best Buy along South Meridian. It turns out that the Best Buy shopping trip was planned, and the father knew about it.

Police are pursuing charges of false reporting against the father. One thing did turn out to be true: police found the mother in possession of drugs, and she was arrested.

"Just an absolute complete cluster that wasted so many resources and time," Puyallup police said in a report about the incident.

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