Twin towers hoax woman gets three years

A woman who set off a frantic and fruitless search for survivors when she said her husband had called her from under the destroyed World Trade Centre has been jailed for three years.

Sugeil Mejia, 24, of Union City, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday on her guilty plea to reckless endangerment. She had faced up to seven years if convicted after trial, but now she will be eligible for parole after she serves one year.