The mother of a missing 9-year-old Santa Barbara County girl was charged Monday in a case that is not directly related to her daughter's disappearance, prosecutors said Monday.

Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was charged with one count of felony false imprisonment in what authorities described only as an incident that occurred Nov. 6 in her hometown of Lompoc. She was being held on $100,000 bail with arraignment scheduled for Wednesday.

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In a statement last week, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said Buzzard was arrested in connection with a recent incident during which she "prevented a victim from leaving a location."

Details about the crime were not immediately available.

"This crime is not connected to the

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