A University of Alabama student who claimed to have been raped Sunday morning by two men was not attacked, authorities said today.

The student, 18-year-old Emma Mannion, made up the incident and now is under arrest, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Capt. Gary Hood. Mannion is charged with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor.

The teen told police she was forced inside a red Jeep Cherokee in or near the parking area of Solomon's parking lot at 650 Wallace Wade Ave. at 2 a.m. Sunday. She reported the assault occurred inside the vehicle by two men, one of them a Hispanic male with a wiry build.

Hood said today detectives interviewed witnesses and recovered video surveillance of the area which did not support Mannion's initial account of the incident. After confronting Mannion with this evidence, Mannion admitted to investigators she falsified her report.

"She confessed to making up the report,'' Hood said. He declined to go into the reason gave for doing so.

Mannion was with a group of people around the time of the alleged incident. Investigators spoke with people she was with immediately before and after she said the attack happened.

Fortunately, Hood said, there are multiple surveillance cameras throughout Tuscaloosa, both on and off campus. "It disputed what she told us early on,'' Hood said.

Hood said his unit has investigated 104 sexual assault crimes so far this year - 27 of those from University of Alabama students. Of those 27, only two have resulted in an arrest. Many have been unfounded, or investigators were not able to obtain enough information and evidence to secure a warrant.

"A common denominator is underage drinking,'' Hood said. "Not social drinking, but drinking to the point of losing consciousness or losing memory. It makes it very difficult for us to...find out the details of what happened."

He said indications are Mannion had been drinking. He also said she knew the man she identified as a possible suspect.

Authorities said false claims take away from valid investigations, and cost everyone in terms of manpower and overtime. Lt. Kip Hart said it's disheartening.

"The biggest thing is the entire University of Alabama campus has been on edge,'' he said, adding that authorities have received phone calls from concerned parents from across the country. "The fact that she made this up, for whatever reason, we had a lot of undue fear in our community because of this."

The University released this statement following Mannion's arrest: "Tuscaloosa County investigators today arrested the female student who reported the sexual assault in the parking area near 6th Street and Wallace Wade Blvd. The report triggered a timely warning being sent to the campus community and numerous news reports. After interviewing witnesses and viewing video surveillance, investigators confronted the student who admitted falsifying the report. She is being charged with a misdemeanor by police, and the report is being forwarded to the Office of Student Conduct.

The University's Title IX Office and Women and Gender Resource Center provide services to anyone who is a victim of sexual assault, harassment, exploitation, violence and abuse. This case should not discourage anyone who has been affected by any of these crimes to report the incident to the appropriate authorities. Information is available at https://wgrc.sa.ua.edu/counseling-and-advocacy/ or http://titleix.ua.edu/"