Bonnie Sweeten Fakes Abduction & Goes To Disney World – Bonnie Sweeten faked a carjacking and an abduction of herself and her 9-year old daughter, then went to Disney World.

A Pennsylvania woman, Bonnie Sweeten, 38, was arrested Wednesday after her story about being abducted with her daughter unraveled — quickly turning from a mysterious missing persons case into a criminal investigation that ended in her capture at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando.

Bucks County, Pa., District Attorney Michelle Henry said 38-year-old Bonnie Sweeten of Feasterville was taken into custody in Florida around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Henry said Sweeten’s 9-year-old daughter, Julia Rakoczy, was with her and is waiting in Florida for her father to meet her.

Sweeten used a co-worker’s driver’s license and presented it as her own when she bought an airline ticket and flew to Orlando, Fla. on Tuesday, Henry said, adding Sweeten also used the license to check into the Grand Floridian Hotel at Disney World.

Tony Rakoczy, Sweeten’s ex-husband and Julia’s father, will pick the girl up, Henry said.

A security camera reportedly showed Sweeten and Rakoczy at Philadelphia International Airport, just hours after Sweeten made at least seven 911 calls by cell phone saying she was locked in the trunk of a dark-colored 1990s Cadillac.

“It’s a terrifying thing for a local community to hear that allegedly two black men in a Cadillac took a woman and her daughter,” Henry told reporters at a press conference Wednesday night.

“The fact that she would accuse anybody of doing something … was a total fabrication on her part,” Henry said.

The case was cracked because a combination of factors didn’t add up, she said.

Investigators uncovered that Sweeten allegedly was involved in stealing about $300,000 from her former employer, an attorney in suburban Philadelphia, the local ABC affiliate reported.

Detectives and reporters had been puzzled by holes in Sweeten’s story, and FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver confirmed earlier Wednesday the existence of “inconsistencies” in her account of the accident and abduction. But he declined at the time to elaborate and said those aren’t the focus of the investigation.

Sweeten had told emergency dispatchers that she and her daughter were snatched in the middle of the day Tuesday by two black men who rear-ended her SUV in suburban Philadelphia, according to police.

When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no evidence of the crash and the FBI and local police found no witnesses who saw the accident that the missing mother described.

And although Sweeten said the accident took place in Upper Southampton Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, Klaver said authorities discovered her 2005 GMC Denali SUV on Wednesday in Center City, 40 minutes away, along with a parking ticket that indicates it was there about 20 minutes after she dialed 911.

The 911 calls were traced to downtown Philadelphia, about 20 miles from the site of the reported fender-bender and abduction. One was picked up by a cell tower only two blocks from where Sweeten’s car was found.

After her “abduction” made national news and Bonnie Sweeten was caught, reporters speculated that she could make a quick buck or two with an “I’m going to Disney World” commercial.

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