DERBY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police department says it’s no longer looking for a suspicious black van or a suspect in reported child abduction attempt that never happened.

A woman told Derby police on Oct. 1 that a man in a van pulled alongside her and her children, offered candy and cookies and then jumped out and grabbed her 3-year-old daughter when she refused.

Police put out an alert last week for a black van and released a composite sketch of a suspect. The woman told police she fended off the attacker by hitting him twice and forcing him to release the child.

The Wichita Eagle reports authorities announced on Thursday they had determined the report was false, and that the woman had recanted the initial accusations.