Boy says mother ‘ran him over’ and left him on side of road before she falsely reported kidnapping: Police

A woman has been arrested after falsely reporting a kidnapping, leaving her son unattended along a major roadway and allowing him to run off in the night following a tantrum, police said. The incident began on Nov. 5 when authorities from the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana responded to a report of a child who had allegedly been kidnapped at approximately 1 a.m. near the area of U.S. 190 and Industrial Road in Eunice, Louisiana, according to a statement from St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. “The mother, Artasia Quantaya Viges, reported that individuals in an older model truck had kidnapped her son as she was parked on the roadway attending to a deflated tire,” authorities said.