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Authorities in Volusia County, Florida, arrested an 11-year-old after she called 911 to report that her friend had been taken at gunpoint as a prank.

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An 11-year-old girl in Florida who texted 911 operators to report that an armed man had kidnapped her friend was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsely reporting a crime, authorities said.

The child, who lives in Port Orange near Daytona Beach in east-central Florida, had called 911 to report that her 14-year-old friend had been taken by an armed kidnapper driving a white van, said Volusia County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Laura Williams.

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