The State - News from Feb. 28, 1986

At least part of a teen-ager’s story of being kidnaped by a truck driver and chained for a week in the cab of his rig is a hoax, authorities said. Cindi Mouat, 17, of suburban Seattle, told Fresno County sheriff’s deputies that she was abducted from a shopping center parking lot in Seattle and escaped in California when the truck driver fell asleep without chaining her up. However, Sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Gallagher said that four people identified her from newspaper pictures as a girl who stayed at a Fresno shelter for battered women for three days before she showed up in handcuffs at the Fresno County jail. Investigators believe the handcuffs were purchased at an adult bookstore in downtown Fresno.