An incident of "road rage" led to two drivers being cited late Thursday evening.

According to an Austin Police Department report, a verbal argument between occupants of two vehicles was witnessed in the McDonald's Restaurant parking lot along West Oakland Avenue.

Apparently, the argument followed another dispute in traffic, where one of the vehicles may have been bumped by another.

Occupants of one of the vehicles claimed a passenger in the other showed a black handgun and made threats, police said.

When the vehicle was stopped and searched, no gun was found, according to the report.

The road rage incident climaxed with the drivers cited for careless driving violations at 11:18 p.m. Thursday.

Austin police investigate 'abduction'

The Austin-Mower County Law Enforcement Center received several calls of a possible abduction Thursday night.

The calls told of seeing a female forced into a yellow Mustang that sped away from the scene. Austin police immediately treated the reports as reliable and investigated the possible abduction throughout the evening.

Police remained on the look-out for the vehicle, which was finally spotted at 6:51 p.m. by a tow truck driver parked at the bottom of Skinner's Hill in southwest Austin. When officers approached the vehicle and interviewed the driver and a female companion, the pair identified themselves as husband and wife, according to the report.

The subjects told police, they were involved in a domestic dispute and the woman refused to file charges.