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Police question story of woman's abduction
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David Conti can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7981.
Police Lt. Kevin Kraus said detectives are investigating the report and plan to interview the 34-year-old woman today. Some investigators said privately, though, that they have concerns about the woman's story.
"We're still investigating to verify her account of the incident," Kraus said.
The woman, whom police did not identify, walked into the Eat' N Park Restaurant on Banksville Road about 10:15 a.m. yesterday and asked for help.
When police arrived, she told them she had been abducted by two men from the parking lot of Kuhn's supermarket a few blocks away about 11 p.m. Sunday. The men took her and the car she was driving, and drove her around for more than an hour before taking her to a house, police said.
The men stole her money, and then one of them stabbed her in her arm, she said. Yesterday morning, they drove her and her car back to Banksville Road and dropped her off near the restaurant, police said.
Paramedics took the woman to Allegheny General Hospital, North Side, and she was released in the afternoon.
Police learned that the woman had taken the car from a friend of her mother without permission.
The woman described her kidnappers as black men driving a dark blue sedan with a red stripe. Police searched for the car yesterday with no results.
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