The Youngstown Police Department has canceled an Endangered Missing Child Advisory for a missing or abducted 16-year-old girl from the city’s Southside. 

Instead, the girl is now charged with seven felony counts in connection with the case.

While 16-year-old Jenya Ingram was recovered Tuesday afternoon, but police are now stating the alleged kidnapping was a hoax.

Youngstown Police Chief of Detectives Captain Jason Simon in a press release said that YPD responded to the 700-block of Sherwood for a missing female Tuesday.

According to the release, the girl's parents discovered several text messages sent to them from the juvenile stating that she had been kidnapped, had a gun to her head, and that her captors were demanding ransom money to be sent via an app to secure her safety. The report states that phone calls by the girl's alleged captors followed.

YPD Patrol Division, along with the YPD Detective Division, and Special Victims Unit, began what was described as an 'in-depth probe' into this alleged violent crime.

According to the release, investigators, along with the local Child Abduction Response Team, determined that the 16-year-old may have orchestrated this scheme in order to extort money from her father.

After a nearly 5-hour multi-jurisdictional investigation, including Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office, BCI, the FBI-Youngstown office, the US Marshals, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the runaway was located by the YPD Detective Division safe and unharmed not far from her home.

The girl was interviewed by the YPD Special Victims Unit and charged with Inducing Panic, F-4; Making False Alarms, F-4; two counts of Telecommunications Harassment, each F-4; Extortion, F-3; two counts of Theft, F-5 and Possession of Criminal Tools, F-5.

The 16-year-old was taken to the Juvenile Justice Center.