Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), June 28th, 2005
Byline: Matt McKinney; Staff Writer
A pair of boys who were praised Sunday for evading a potential kidnapping at a St. Paul playground were caught lying a day later as they retold their story to investigators, police said.
The attempted abduction never happened, it turned out, and a man who spent a night in jail as a result of the boys' tale was let go Monday evening without charges, said Paul Schnell, police spokesman.
The department planned a news conference today to talk about the case, which began Sunday evening when the boys, ages 5 and 9, ran from an apartment building playground in...
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