A kidnapping sighting Thursday in North Hollywood actually turned out to be a person who voluntarily got in the trunk of a car because there was no more room to sit, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
A citizen phoned police when someone was spotted hopping into the trunk of a vehicle occupied by six people near Vineland Avenue and Kittridge Street around 1 p.m., said Lt. Bryan Lium.
When officers arrived and conducted an investigation, they ruled no kidnapping had taken place.
But the driver was cited for getting behind the wheel without a license and a few of the passengers were ticketed for having open containers of alcohol in public, Lium said.
