Crime & Safety

Monday Kidnapping Unlikely at Lake Mission Viejo

After investigating an attempted kidnapping report, police conclude the Monday call was a mistake.

Police have decided a reported kidnapping Monday night at probably didn't happen.

Someone called police about a possible child abduction at 7:34 p.m. Monday. At the same time over 200 guests were honoring the memory of Reginal Daniel Futch Jr., who .

According to Sgt. Sandra Kirsch with Mission Viejo police services, "the kid was playing ball nearby and must have disrupted the festivities."

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At that point an adult probably tried to discipline the boy, Kirsch said, and someone most likely interpreted it as a kidnapping.


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