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N.B. woman pleads guilty in abduction hoax

Last Updated: Monday, November 2, 2009 | 12:58 PM ET

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A New Brunswick woman has pleaded guilty to public mischief for fabricating a story about being abducted near Woodstock, N.B., and forced to drive to Toronto.

Marcia Lynette Simmons, 44, entered her guilty plea Monday in provincial court in Burton, N.B., 20 kilometres southeast of Fredericton.

She's scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 21.

Simmons, of Noonan, N.B., had told police that a man got into her sport utility vehicle at a campground in Woodstock, about 100 kilometres northwest of Fredericton, on Aug. 8. She claimed he then forced her at gunpoint to drive him to Toronto — a 14-hour drive.

After several interviews, RCMP investigators said she admitted to having made up the story and had gone to Toronto for personal reasons.

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