CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Police Discount Kidnaping Story

Berkeley police discounted the story of Donna Oh, a Walnut Creek woman who vanished for nearly a month and said she was kidnaped and sexually assaulted. “Based on statements that we have received and people we have talked to, we are very comfortable in saying that the kidnaping and the rape . . . just did not occur, certainly not in the sequential series of events as she described them,” said Berkeley Police Capt. Phil Doran. Oh disappeared Nov. 2 and returned to the San Francisco Bay Area Nov. 26 after resurfacing in Salt Lake City. She told police she was abducted by two men for four days, after which she traveled alone through California and Nevada to Utah because of threats the men would harm her daughter.