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An Arizona woman who sparked an investigation when she called her mother and claimed she had been kidnapped admitted she made the story up so she could visit her boyfriend in Mexico, myFOXphoenix reports.

22-year-old Jessica Rodriguez was considered a missing and endangered person until she showed up at a border crossing station in Nogales, Arizona Saturday.

The woman's mother reported her missing March 30 after Rodriguez called her and said she had been kidnapped. Rodriguez told her mother she had been tied up, blindfolded and taken to an unknown location.