Update: Giselle Smiel Filed a Good-Cause Report Under California Law — Seven Months Later, L.A. Prosecutors Charged Her With Kidnapping

Court and dispatch records reviewed by this publication show that the same Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, Rosa Alarcon, who, in December 2024, told Smiel her good-cause report was a family-court matter and declined to pursue a criminal report against her later signed the five-count felony complaint that led to her September 2025 arrest.