Teen fakes own kidnapping to get $130 from mom, deputies say
A South Carolina teen duped his mother into believing he had been abducted and would be killed unless she gave his kidnappers $130, authorities said.According to WLTX, Sumter County sheriff's deputies arrested Emmanuel Franklin, 19, on an extortion/blackmail charge Thursday, two days after his mother received a phone call saying kidnappers would harm or kill him if she didn't leave the money in a mailbox, authorities said.Franklin's mother told deputies she received a call from her son and an unknown man from a private number on January 22. The unknown man reportedly demanded she put $130 in a mailbox on Bagnal Drive or her son would be hurt or killed.Franklin reportedly later told officers he made up the story to get $130 from his mother.
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