Youngster makes false statements to law enforcement

A South Lake Tahoe 9-year-old girl was not accosted last week as has been reported by some news outlets in South Lake Tahoe.

“We did more follow-up today and it was unfounded,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News.

There were doubts all along about the girl’s story being completely accurate, which is why according to Underhill, the school district was never notified.

“Without calling her untruthful, her imagination played into it,” Underhill said of what the youth reported.

Then her story changed and never could be verified.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report