'Abducted' Mom Charged With ID Theft, False Reports

A Pennsylvania woman who vanished after calling 911 to say she had been abducted and stuffed in the trunk of a car along with her young daughter apparently faked the abduction, booked a flight to Orlando, where she checked into a hotel under an alias and then took her daughter to visit a Disney theme park, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Bonnie Sweeten, 38, was taken into custody in Orlando after being apprehended by the FBI and Orange County police at the Grand Floridian resort and is being charged with false reports and identity theft, Bucks County, Pa., District Attorney Michelle Henry said this evening.

Sweeten will not face any federal charges at this time, the prosecutor said.

Her 9-year-old daughter, Julia Rakoczy, was with authorities in Orlando and was to be picked up by her father, Henry said.

While Sweeten's motive for fleeing was unclear, Henry indicated that domestic and financial problems were likely at the root of it.

She said Sweeten used a a co-worker's driver's license when she bought airline tickets and flew to Orlando after reporting the abduction.

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Sweeten and her daughter disappeared Tuesday. She was last heard from about 1:45 p.m. when she called 911 to say she had been in a minor car accident in Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb. She called a second time moments later to say she had been tossed in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men, according to police.

"This was a total fabrication on her part," Henry said this evening.

As the investigation developed, investigators became increasingly skeptical of her abduction tale, which was told against the backdrop of a probe into Sweeten's alleged involvement in the theft of about $300,000 from her former employer, an attorney in Upper Makefield Township, sources close to the investigation told ABC News.

Sweeten also had recently told a friend, investigators said, that she was feeling suicidal. Investigators said friends and relatives noted she was scared in the days prior to her disappearance.

Authorities had already noted that Sweeten had withdrawn about $12,000 from several bank accounts over a period of days, initially believing the money had been stolen.