The search for a 22-year-old Glendale woman who eventually said she made up her story about being kidnapped could cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.



Officials, however, said Nancy Salas is unlikely to face criminal charges in Glendale in connection with the hoax.



“She is an adult,” Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz told the News-Press. “And she has a right to do as she pleases, and if she wants to leave her family and her friends, that is her right.”



Still, he said city attorneys would evaluate if and how the city could recoup the costs of the massive search efforts.

In the hours after Salas was reported missing -- after a supposed run up Chevy Chase Canyon on Wednesday morning -- Glendale police assigned more than a dozen investigators to the case.



Many worked past midnight Wednesday with her family, friends and church members as a massive search in Chevy Chase Canyon was carried out with a police helicopter, bloodhounds and other canines trained to sniff out dead bodies.

