By KARI BLURTON
Hays Post

The Hays Police Department responded to a reported kidnapping early Monday morning.

According to Chief Don Scheibler, the HPD received a call from dispatchers at the Salina Police Department 11:47 p.m. Monday.

SPD dispatchers reported a 23-year-old female was calling 911 from the backseat of a car.

The female reported she was being held against her will and traveling westbound on Interstate 70 toward Hays.

HPD located the vehicle at 12:14 a.m. Tuesday at a Vine Street gas station.

Scheibler said contact was made with the five occupants in the vehicle and an investigation revealed the “kidnapping report was unfounded.”

The five occupants of the car, three males and two females, all in their mid 20s, were apparently traveling the country and hailed from around the country — Missouri, Georgia, Colorado and Texas.

Reportedly, an argument ensued between occupants, prompting the 23-year-old female, believed to be from Texas, to call 911 with the kidnapping report.

Scheibler said she bought a bus ticket and left Hays.