State police say that a man accused of attempting to abduct a girl outside the Laurel Mall Friday night was actually a driver for a rideshare service like Uber.

A language barrier created confusion that led the girl's father to believe that she was being abducted from the Hazleton-area shopping center by the driver, state police said in a news release Monday.

The incident occurred as the girl was arranging a ride home from Laurel Mall Friday night, May 6.

The girl's father had arranged for someone to pick her up out around 8 p.m. Police said that the girl instead got inside another vehicle, which drove away.

Police said that the girl's father called her during the ride, and asked to be put on speakerphone. The driver was unable to communicate with the girl and her father due to a language barrier, and contacted an interpreter to translate.

Ultimately, the driver stopped the vehicle and let her out of the vehicle at another business, where she was picked up by the driver who was actually sent by her father.

Through their investigation, police determined the driver accused of abducting the girl was actually employed by a rideshare service like Uber.

Police said that the driver did not have any physical contact with the driver.

"Furthermore, the driver did not say or do anything in the presence of the juvenile that would be deemed inappropriate," the news release read.

They ultimately found that no attempted abduction took place.

According to published reports, a man named Kenny Swords claimed that his daughter was abducted Friday night outside the Kmart at Laurel Mall. In the article, Swords was quoted as saying that the driver "needs to be put in jail, and that he was offering a "very large" cash reward in connection with the case.