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The story told by two teenage Bountiful girls — that they were kidnapped off the street last month, bound with duct tape and held overnight in Santaquin — is false, police reported Tuesday.

"During the ongoing investigation into the abduction, Bountiful police detectives were able to locate video evidence clearly showing the alleged victims in a convenience store during the time period of the reported abduction," according to a news release.

After the two girls were confronted with the video evidence, "both girls admitted to falsely reporting the abduction," police said.

Charges against the girls for filing a false police report will be screened by the Davis County Attorney's Office.

Bountiful police Lt. Dave Edwards said Tuesday the video footage from a Payson convenience store shows the girls were free at about 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 9, which is during the 19-hour window in which they claimed to have been held prisoners.

Edwards said the girls have not divulged a motive for making the false report; nor have they revealed how they got to Utah County or what they did there.

The video footage shows the girls enter the convenience store, sit down and eat food taken from a backpack they had with them, Edwards said.

"We're just relieved to tell the community that we don't have a predator ... on the Wasatch Front," he said.

At about 9:20 p.m. on Sept. 9, the two girls flagged down a vehicle on Main Street in Santaquin to report they had escaped an abduction, police reported initially.

Santaquin police responded and found the girls had some minor injuries not requiring medical treatment. According to initial reports, the girls were abducted in Bountiful at 2 a.m. on Sept. 8, and held in a vehicle until they escaped.

The girls described their abductors as two male suspects in a red SUV.

The mother of one girl told The Tribune last month that when the girls' parents arrived at the Santaquin Police Department, the 16-year-old burst into tears and ran to her mother. The 17-year-old was "frozen," her mother said.

"There was no color in her face," the woman said. "She showed no emotion at all. It was like she was there, but she wasn't there."

The 17-year-old had suffered minor cuts from the knife she was threatened with, but she required no hospital care, her mother said.

The woman said the girls were recovering but were "still really traumatized," said the 16-year-old's mother, who added that the girls were no longer walking to work or other activities, for fear of someone following them, the mother said.

Edwards said detectives found footage of the girls while checking surveillance video from stores along the Interstate 15 corridor from Bountiful to Santaquin.