Hoover police are consulting with the district attorney's office over the possibility of pushing criminal charges against Russell for faking her kidnapping.
Carlee Russell could face jail time for enacting her own disappearance and lying about being kidnapped, a former detective toldRussell, a 25-year-old nursing student from Hoover, Alabama, disappeared on the night of July 13 as she was driving home from work on Interstate 459. Minutes before police found her vehicle abandoned on the road, she had called 911 about seeing a toddler walking alone on the side of I-459.
But a lack of action from the police, which did not mention a kidnapper in their updates on the investigation to the public nor launched a search for a missing child, led many online to speculate that Russell had lied about being kidnapped. and that she had not seen a child on I-459, as reported in a statement written by her attorney and read by Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis during a news conference.
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