A 14-year-old girl in Odessa has been arrested after police say she lied about being kidnapped and sexually assaulted and actually ran away to be with her boyfriend.

According to the Odessa Police Department, on April 29 they responded to Target for a call of a kidnapping and sexual assault.

When officers arrived on scene they met with a 14-year-old girl, who said that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by an unknown man,

According to OPD, throughout the investigation police found that the teen's account of the incident was not consistent with that of a kidnapping and sexual assault victim. Police also learned that she had been reported as a runaway.

Eventually the teen admitted to detectives that she had made up being kidnapped and sexually assaulted, and had instead run away from home to be with her boyfriend.

She was then charged and arrested before being taken to the Ector County Youth Center.