Updated: 2:57 PM CDT June 2, 2021
POTEAU, Okla. A Poteau woman has been arrested after police say she lied about a boy s cancer diagnosis to solicit donations online for his treatment.
According to Assistant Police Chief Greg Russell, the Poteau Police Department was contacted by a female resident about her wife, Ariana Noelle Gregg, 46, and the six-year-old boy under Gregg s guardianship.
The caller stated that Gregg and the boy left Poteau on Tuesday, May 25, to go to Saint Jude Children s Hospital in Memphis for the boy s cancer treatment.
The caller also stated that she had learned that Gregg and the boy were not at Saint Jude, but that Gregg had made false claims about the boy s cancer, and they were both in Saginaw, Michigan with an online acquaintance of Gregg s.