Woman charged with faking abduction to hide college dropout status

A 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman, Chloe Stein, has been charged with four misdemeanors for faking her own abduction to hide the fact that she dropped out of college and wasn't about to graduate. Stein was last heard from on Monday evening when she texted her boyfriend saying she was being pulled over by a police officer. Her family found her vehicle abandoned, and an expansive search for Stein was launched. The case unravelled when a tip came in that Stein was actually at a home in Jeannette, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Stein admitted to fabricating all of the information pertaining to the incident, and police are investigating whether other people were involved in her alleged hoax.