TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (ABC4) — A Taylorsville woman is facing charges of making false police reports telling multiple police agencies she was kidnapped.
Alexzandra Benitez Mendenhall, 32, was arrested early Thursday morning. She currently faces one charge of emergency reporting abuse — imminent serious injury or death. Police said she made eight calls to several different police agencies over four days, including six calls to three different agencies on Wednesday night.
According to arrest documents, Midvale Police requested assistance from other agencies regarding a 911 call from the 4300 block of South Marvinwood Drive in Taylorsville. A woman, later identified as Mendenhall, reportedly told authorities that she was abducted, put into the trunk of a car, and that a male suspect had an AK-47 rifle.
Mendenhall reportedly told police that she believed the suspect lived in a townhome near Salt Lake Community College. She described the residence as “the last home on the street next to a white barrier in the neighborhood behind [the] SLCC campus.”