{"id":225986,"date":"2026-06-23T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:21:19","slug":"two-erie-residents-charged-following-false-kidnapping-report-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225986\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Erie Residents Charged Following False Kidnapping Report | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Crime Scene.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"744\" height=\"416\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police from the Erie Patrol Unit filed charges against two Erie residents after responding to what was initially reported as a kidnapping incident that was later determined that there had not been a kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were dispatched at approximately 7:24 a.m. on June 10, 2026, to the area of 7865 Perry Highway in Summit Township, Erie County following a reported kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation, led by Trooper A. Weatherton, revealed that no kidnapping had actually taken place. Instead, authorities developed probable cause during the course of the investigation, resulting in criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals involved were identified as Noalia Waite, 19 and Ali Al Mohammad, 29.<\/p>\n<p>Both individuals have been charged, and the case has been filed through the appropriate Magisterial District Court.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police have not released additional details regarding the circumstances that led to the false report or the specific charges filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police from the Erie Patrol Unit filed charges against two Erie residents after responding to what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4474,136,142,138,137,98050,98051,1224],"class_list":["post-225986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-criminal-charges","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-false-kidnapping-report","tag-noalia-waite","tag-pennsylvania-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}