Woman who reported a child abduction attempt at a Kentucky Kroger store is headed to court
A Florence woman has been charged with falsely reporting an incident, after she allegedly said that a man had tried to abduct her young son at the Kroger store in Burlington.
Halie Snyder, 26, allegedly told the Boone County Sheriff’s Office that she and her son had been shopping at the store at about 7:45 p.m. Jan. 28, when a man followed her through the store and tried “to grab her son by the arm as they were exiting an aisle,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
Snyder told the sheriff’s office that she “grabbed her son and ran to a Kroger store clerk to report what had happened,” the sheriff’s office stated. “Kroger employees looked for the man, but according to her report, he had already left the store and was not located.”
“Through investigation, it has been determined that the allegation is false and criminal charges have been filed in this case,” the sheriff’s office said Tuesday.
The sheriff’s office said the incident allegedly occurred last Tuesday, but it was not reported by Snyder until Thursday, the same day detectives became aware of a social media post circulating about it.
The sheriff’s office said detectives worked with Kroger to review video surveillance, and “it was apparent that the surveillance did not match what Snyder had initially reported.”
“The man in question” had not tried to grab the child and was not acting “suspicious,” the sheriff’s office said.
According to the sheriff’s office, when she was “confronted with the findings from the surveillance, Snyder apologized to detectives, claimed she was scared but couldn’t specify as to why she feared the man that she had accused.”
Snyder was served Tuesday afternoon with a criminal summons charging her with falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, the sheriff’s office said.
This story was originally published February 4, 2020 at 7:16 PM.
