SAN JOSE — A San Jose State University student will not face charges after disappearing the eve of commencement and falsely reporting she was kidnapped and forced to drive her captor to Oregon, according to authorities there and in San Jose.

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San Jose police investigated the claim that the 22-year-old unnamed woman was abducted at knifepoint by a man who later abandoned her Friday night 90 miles north of the California border. After the confession, they had no offense for which to recommend prosecution.

“Nothing was committed here in San Jose,” Officer Albert Morales said. “There’s no crime locally.”

Officials with the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, which includes the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon, near where the woman was spotted running along Highway 101 on Friday night, voiced similar plans.

“We are not going to forward our reports to the District Attorney,” Sheriff’s Sgt. Kelly Andrews said.

San Jose State officials deferred an inquiry about the student to city police, but did say that “SJSU is grateful for her safe return.”

But in the wake of the false report, both the Coo’s County sheriff and San Jose police both admonished how the concoction tied up already stretched investigative resources.

Andrews noted that after the woman was found by deputies, they summoned officers and deputies from surrounding areas and deployed a K-9 unit to search the area for several hours, but came up empty.

“We exhausted our resources that night,” he said.

Sheriff’s investigators interviewed the woman on two occasions, both before and after she was treated for facial injuries she said were inflicted by her attacker. Andrews said once they determined that her account entailed the primary kidnapping allegation occurred in San Jose, they deferred to that police department.

San Jose investigators tried for most of Tuesday to get in touch with the woman and her family, who grew worried when she didn’t show up for a pre-graduation meetup. Morales said once detectives made contact and interviewed her, the ruse unraveled swiftly.

“She copped to it right away,” Morales said.

The reasoning or motivation behind the false report remains unclear.

Besides the tie-up of police resources in two different states, some found it equally troubling that the woman gave a general suspect description of a mixed-race Black and Latino man, seemingly leveraging criminal stereotypes.

“It’s very hurtful to certain communities when a story is given more credibility because you attribute the conduct to a certain member of that community,” said Steven Clark, a legal analyst and criminal-defense attorney. “That can lead to a ripple effect of people being stopped who had nothing to do with a crime.”

Raj Jayadev, director of the social justice group Silicon Valley De-Bug, echoed the sentiment.

“We work with people who have been arrested based on vague suspect descriptions that are regurgitated stereotypes,” he said. “Law enforcement act on these stereotypes and specific parts of the community bear the brunt.”

But both police agencies involved with sussing out the kidnap report said this instance will not deter them from their longstanding practices of presuming victims are being honest and sorting out the truth in an ensuing investigation.

“Any time a person reports a crime, you want to be empathetic. You take everything at face value, and you want to follow up, make sure statements are accurate, thorough and complete,” Morales said. “It makes it difficult when you’re in a different jurisdiction, claiming a crime in another jurisdiction that is too far away to follow up quickly.”

Andrews, from the Oregon agency, concurred.

“We treat them all as if they are true until we can prove otherwise. Fortunately incidents like this don’t happen often,” he said, adding that his agency did not see the need to add a criminal case to what might be troubling the woman.

“You need to know the reasoning for the hoax, and whether there are other avenues to seek help.”