WEYMOUTH, Mass. — The 911 call was intense. A woman telling police she was somewhere in town bound in duct tape.
But it was all a lie, police say.
Police found her down an embankment along the highway as a dispatcher remained on the phone with her to guide rescuers in her direction.
FOX25's Robert Goulston tracked down a business that had video police are now going through to piece together exactly what happened.
"There was about 10 cruisers across the highway, seeing them looking down in the ditch," Michael Landry said.
It took ropes and ladders to get down the embankment at Route 18 and the highway to get the woman back up. When she first called 911, she had no idea where she was so police kept her on the phone.
"She's telling us she's tied up, she can hear a lot of cars going by," you can hear in police radio audio. "We're going to have her start yelling, see if you can hear her. Everyone stay where you are, she can hear one of you."
When police got her up -- she had duct tape on her hands and feet. She started telling them a vague story about how a man gave her a ride and dropped her off near where she was located. She also indicated she had been meeting different men from an online website. The woman's bike and backpack were discovered more than a mile away in a parking lot in Columbian Square.
Police found her belongings after they got call from a cell phone dealer who recently sold her a phone and saw her bike in the back lot.
But as investigators spoke to the girl the day after she was found, her story began to unravel. Police told FOX25 she confessed to them she had made the story up and was not the victim of an assault of any kind.
Police say the woman was treated at the hospital and is expected to be okay.
The building owner showed FOX25 the video police are now going through that shows that back parking lot.
"They did see activity there was a woman who had bicycle that left and then a car drove up and that's all I really know," said Pam McGrath, with Ralph Talananian Insurance.
Weymouth police say they are investigating the incident but want residents to rest assured there is no danger.
This story has been updated to reflect a statement from police saying the story was untrue.
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