State v. J. L. S.

Youth, who was 17 years old at the time of the events giving rise to his adjudication, appeals a juvenile court judgment finding him within the jurisdiction of the court for initiating a false report, ORS 162.375.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

One night after midnight, youth’s sister discovered that youth, who did not have permission to leave the house, was not in his bedroom at their house in Depoe Bay. Youth’s sister spoke to youth’s father, and youth’s father called youth.

Youth told his father that he had been kidnapped from the house at gunpoint and driven to Portland, but that…