A man told Oceanside police Friday night that his girlfriend was kidnapped at gunpoint, but now police say that report was either a misunderstanding or the result of a quarrel between the man and woman.
At 9:30 p.m., an Oceanside police dispatcher received a kidnapping report from the motel at 901 N. Coast Highway.
The boyfriend told officials that the suspects drove up to the couple in a Chevrolet Spark and made his girlfriend get into the car. He reported another person inside was armed with a handgun, police said.
However, undercover police tracked the woman down to another Motel 6 near Pointsettia and Avenida Encinitas in Carlsbad. She was unharmed and apparently not kidnapped.
Police are still trying to sort out the dramatic details, but they believe the woman and her boyfriend may have broken up earlier that day.
The woman may have left with an ex-boyfriend, police told NBC 7.
All parties have been accounted for, and no gun was ever found.
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It's unclear if any charges will be filed at this point.
