J'Asiah Mitchell's father, Artavious North, was arrested for making false statements, and the false report of a crime. Police say he "has not been cooperative" in the case.
After Margaret Sweeney was found safe, investigators found out "that Sweeney allegedly made anonymous third-party false reports to a friend, and the Department of Social Services that she had been murdered," the Franklin Police Department said.
The Alabama woman is charged with false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting an incident — both misdemeanors. Each charge carries a punishment of up to a year in jail, if convicted.
After a meeting with police, the lawyer for the Alabama woman who admitted she was not actually kidnapped when she went missing for two days said he expects her to be charged for faking the disappearance.
“I know what it seems like what she did," Thomar Latrell Simmons said in a new interview about questions surrounding girlfriend Carlee Russell's disappearance.
“I do think it’s highly unusual... on the day someone gets kidnapped... that they’re searching the internet, Googling the movie Taken, about an abduction," Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis said of Carlee Russell's disappearance.
