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S.C. teen reported missing charged with filing false report

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Marley McKenna Spindler, a 16-year-old Myrtle Beach teen who was found safe after being missing for nearly a week, has been charged with making a false police report, reports Myrtle Beach online.

The teen vanished Aug. 20 from a Myrtle Beach Chick-fil-A and was located by police Thursday in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, about 90 miles south of where she vanished. The disappearance made national headlines.

Before Spindler was located, police had said a search of her cell phone "revealed evidence that she left alone and not under duress or coercion," according to CBS affiliate WBTW. Police haven't commented on whether the girl was alone or with others when she was found in Mt. Pleasant.

Police also told the station they had cleared a person of interest in the case -- a man who police said the teen was picking up the morning she vanished.

When Spindler was located by officers in Mt. Pleasant, she said she had been kidnapped from Myrtle Beach hotel parking lot, forced to withdraw money from a bank and was taken south to the Charleston area, according to the website. She reportedly said she was sexually assaulted while in Charleston, but after being questioned by police, she was charged with filing a false police report.

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