Kathleen Sorensen, an Instagram influencer, reported the false crime to police in 2020 and proceeded to blast fabricated details to her social media followers and local TV news viewers.

A social media influencer and mom from the North Bay who went viral for a 2020 Instagram video falsely claiming a couple tried to kidnap her children has been sentenced to jail, prosecutors said.

A jury in California has convicted a woman of lying to authorities about a couple attempting to kidnap her children at a Bay Area Michaels craft store in 2020.

Sorensen made up a story of a Latino couple attempting to kidnap her children at a Michael's in Petaluma, California in December 2020.

Kathleen Sorensen, 31, formerly of Sonoma, was taken into custody after the jury returned a guilty verdict, according to an April 27 press release from the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office ...

According to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office, 30-year-old Kathleen "Katie" Sorensen was sentenced Thursday to serve 90 days in jail, 60 of which could be served on a work-release program.

Sorensen's attorney, Charles Dresow, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. In the social media video, Sorensen alleged that the couple had followed her into the store ...

Obama, then just 44, reminded Sorensen of another young senator he had counseled long ago, John F. Kennedy. Sorensen was two years out of law school when he went to work for JFK in the early 1950s ...