California Police have reportedly seized the phone of the woman who went viral on social media after claiming to be Madeleine McCann.
If you have been following this story, then you know a 21-year-old Polish woman named Julia Wendell sparked interest on Instagram after stating that she believed she was the missing British girl.
Her bizarre case was picked up by private investigator and self-professed psychic, Dr. Fia Johansson, who flew the woman from her home country of Poland to Los Angeles after she started receiving death threats online.
However, last month it was revealed via DNA results that the woman is not the three-year-old youngster, who mysteriously vanished from her family’s Portuguese holiday flat on May 3, 2007.
According to RadarOnline, police officials in Wroclaw, Poland, were contacted by Orange County Sheriff's Department to inform them that they have obtained a mobile device that may belong to Wendell.
Dr. Johansson has claimed that this was part of a search and seizure and that the Polish woman handed her mobile device over voluntarily.
Department Spokesman Sgt. Mike Woodroof spoke about the incident to the publication and said: "We are not going to make any comments about the case.
"Our investigation is taking a deep look into it and we’re going to let them do their investigative duties and then from that point let the judicial system take over - if it needs to," he added.
The intervention of cops into the case comes after Wendell's DNA results revealed that she has nearly 100 percent Polish heritage, with no evidence of British ancestry.
The private investigator who helped organize the test told the same outlet: "[Wendell] is absolutely 100 percent from Poland. She is a small percentage of Lithuanian and Russian but the test results show she is Polish. We learned a few things, one being that Julia’s mum is in fact now believed to be her mum, so she is not Madeleine McCann."
She also shared with The Sun how the young woman reacted to her results and revealed that initially, she was not convinced that it was factual but has since come to terms with them.
"At first she didn’t want to believe the DNA results, she was saying 'What if someone changed the results?' but I told her, 'Stop this now,'" Dr. Johansson said. "I can understand as a psychologist why she didn’t want to believe her mother is her real mother.
"But I told her - she must stop this fixation now that she is Madeleine McCann and accept the result of the DNA test and start to move on with her life. She accepts this now but she has been struggling to come to terms with it.
"I made sure that it was safe for her to return to Poland and I've spoken to her father who has said he will make sure she is supported and looked after and receives the health treatment she needs," Dr. Johansson concluded.
Representatives of the McCann family also addressed Julia's DNA test results on Facebook and wrote: "There isn’t anything to report at this time. If and when there is, it will come from The Metropolitan Police."
In other developments, Wendell has made an eyebrow-raising post on her new Instagram account with the handle "Am I Julia Wendell" and revealed that she will do another DNA test to prove her identity.
She explained in the post that will do the test on her own this time, stating: "Yes, my plan is to do a DNA test, another DNA by myself, but nobody will know when and nobody will know which company, or where.
"I want to do this because I just want to do this. I don't even have to explain why but I think everyone knows why I want to do this. When the results come I will let you know everything," she added.
Wendell went on to disclose that she has the "support" of law enforcement and that she is asking Dr. Johansson to hand over all of the documents and medical records in connection with her case.
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