A 22-year-old sales clerk of Queenstown Village, Region Two, is in police custody assisting ‘cops’ with their investigation, after she claimed, in a Facebook post, that she was kidnapped by a taxi driver.

Police ‘arranged’ a confrontation between the sales clerk and the taxi driver, and, during that engagement, the sales clerk claimed that she made a report of her kidnap at the Suddie Police station on April 10.

The young woman also claimed that the car she stopped was searched and a police took out a gun from the waist of the driver’s pair of pants.

Officers at the Suddie Police Station, on checking, did not see any report from the young woman and the officers who worked on April 10 said they did not see or know her.

During the investigation, the young woman was asked to identify the ‘cop’ who took her report. In the process, all the policemen at the station took off their mask but the sales clerk was unable to identify any of them as the ‘cop’ who took her report.

The young lady had alleged that she stopped the car at Queenstown, and, upon entering the vehicle, she saw three other passengers – two females and one male. The Queenstown Village resident claimed that she asked the driver to drop her at a pharmacy at Suddie but instead he dropped her off at G and P Jaigobin Supermarket.

During the confrontation, the driver of the car was asked if he knew the female and he replied in the affirmative. He claimed that he recognised her from a well-known hardware store where she works.

Confronted with the accounts of the policemen and the driver, the young lady claimed that she could not remember the time she made the report, neither could she remember any of the passengers in the car.

She was subsequently arrested and placed in custody for causing public mischief. The driver was released as police continue their investigation.