A Florida kid learns a lesson about making false reports that she will remember for years to come. A deputy from the sheriff’s office is seen walking into the home of 11-year-old Ava, looking for a kidnapping suspect in a bodycam footage posted by the YouTube channel Crime Scrutiny.
The investigation was the direct result of a terrifying 911 report claiming a victim had been abducted at gunpoint and was being driven on the interstate, and the address led them to the house.
As Ava walked into the garage, the deputy took her phone and began fact-checking her story. He informed her parents that their daughter had made a fake kidnapping report, leaving them completely taken aback.
Faced with the confrontation, the young girl initially tried to deny knowing anything about the emergency calls and text messages. Her parents intervened and urged her to tell the truth about the kidnapping call. Ava continued to keep up the act. “I didn’t hear anything,.. I didn’t say anything… It kept popping up…I didn’t know what it was,” she pleaded.
Ava fell silent when her father pointed out that she had made the initial call herself.
“No, you made the initial call. Right there. You made the first call at 9:24 a.m. and canceled it. Then you called again at 9:30 a.m. Then they called you back at 9:42. And that was a 48-second conversation. So, what did you say? What did they say? Who was it?”
Her story quickly unraveled once the officers laid out the scale of the response she had caused, and her account began to shift. She claimed she never meant to report a kidnapping in the first place.
“I accidentally called it, and then I said that it was not my Interstate. I didn’t mean to call,” she said.
The adults present, including her parents, didn’t buy it.
“There’s a lot of people that were trying to find a car, and we want to make sure that everyone’s okay. If this were just like some sort of TikTok or YouTube trend, you said you were on YouTube earlier. Cuz like I tell my kids, you get in less trouble when you tell the truth when you did something wrong versus lying about it when you did something wrong and then getting found out,” the deputy told her.
The clip then cuts to bodycam footage of the deputies piecing together that her story was completely fake.
As the deputies continued to press her for the truth, she tried to blame onto her 7-year-old brother. The officers weren’t having it.
“You were on your own for this. And your little brother’s 7 years old, you’re not going to blame your 7-year-old brother for this.”
One deputy explained the scope of the response: “She said that someone was abducted basically at gunpoint from the Chick-fil-A up in Palm Coast, and they were on I-95 and then said they were pulled over on the side of I-95 at the 234 mile marker, which seems awfully specific, which is almost to the South Turney line. So, we not only had the Port Orange Police Department, New Smyrna Police Department, Edgewater Police Department, Volusia Sheriff’s Office, and Brevard Sheriff’s Office because it was so close to the county line, including a helicopter.”
The officers later determined that Ava’s prank idea stemmed from a YouTube video she had watched. As deputies moved to handcuff her, she became visibly upset and began to resist. Her parents and the officers were able to calm her down and have her sit inside the police vehicle.
Ava was arrested on charges of making a false report concerning the use of a firearm and misuse of 911. She was reportedly kept at the county juvenile detention center before a judge allowed her to return home under her parents’ supervision.
Disclaimer: The Inquisitr could not independently confirm the facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public video record.
