22-year-old Nancy Salas was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation and "an order for 100 hours of community service," according to abc7. Salas, of Glendale, concocted a kidnapping hoax in May in order to distract her parents from learning she had been lying about being enrolled at UCLA and prepping to graduate. The search for Salas engaged her family and the Glendale PD before Salas showed up in Merced, claiming she'd been snatched. Her story soon unraveled, and while the Glendale police did not press charges, authorities in Merced slapped her with a charge for filing a false report. more ›

Nancy Salas did not appear before Merced County Superior Court Judge Marc Garcia on Thursday, but rather sent attorney Jeffrey Tenenbaum in her place to file her plea of not guilty on a misdemeanor charge, according to LA Now. more ›

Nancy Salas, the 22-year-old Glendale woman who faked her own kidnapping, is scheduled to be arraigned today in Merced County Superior Court, according to LA Now. Salas faces a misdemeanor count for filing a false police report. Less than 24 hours after the UCLA dropout had led her family and friends to believe she had disappeared during her morning neighborhood jog, Salas entered a Merced carpeting store and claimed she'd been the victim of a kidnapping. She contacted the authorities, who eventually facilitated her reunion with her family. more ›

A 22-year-old Glendale woman is now facing a misdemeanor charge for the kidnapping hoax that tied up local police during the extensive search and wound up in Merced, where she fled during the staged incident. more ›

Authorities in Merced are considering reversing their initial decision to decline to file charges against 22-year-old Glendale resident Nancy Salas, reports the News-Press. Salas, who faked her own disappearance last week, contacted the Merced Police Department from a carpet store and claimed she'd been kidnapped, and did not reveal her story to be a hoax until she was escorted home by members of the Glendale Police Department. more ›

Friends and family of Nancy Salas were outraged when the Glendale Police Department revealed that 22-year-old was not actually a 5th year UCLA senior, and suggested the young woman had perhaps disappeared on Wednesday May 12th of her own accord. more ›

When Nancy Salas suspiciously made herself disappear on Wednesday, prompting a police search, she probably didn't expect a galore of media attention. What was first a Glendale police investigation into a UCLA student who went for a run and never came back soon turned into an investigation that revealed deception -- she was no longer a student. Finally, on Thursday afternoon, the 22-year-old was found in Merced, a few hours north of the Los Angeles area. Now the reason why she did it is out: she "invented a kidnapping hoax to avoid telling her parents that she had been lying to them about college," according to the LA Times. more ›

*UPDATE 2:35 PM Nancy Salas has been reported found, according to a live report on abc7. The 22-year-old Glendale resident is said to be safe and sound in the town of Merced, according to KNX. Though she is well, there are many questions surrounding her disappearance. more ›

The case of missing Glendale woman Nancy Salas has taken a turn Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz of the Glendale police calls "sideways," according to LA Now. The 22-year-old, missing since she left for a routine jog yesterday morning, has been deceiving friends and family for the past two years, who thought she was preparing to graduate from UCLA this month and pursue a Masters at an East Coast school. Salas, however, has not been enrolled at UCLA since 2008. Lorenz is hesitant to over-interpret the twist in the plot: “There’s obviously a deception. I don’t want to go so far as to call it a double life.” more ›

Authorities in Glendale say the disappearance of 22-year-old Nancy Salas is "suspicious," and today are going to expand their search for the UCLA student who went out for a jog in Glendale yesterday morning and did not return, according to the SGV Tribune. more ›