California woman faked her abduction with boyfriend, angry police now believe

California woman faked her abduction with boyfriend, angry police now believe

Police are now investigating whether the couple falsely reported an abduction, which involved a request for $8,500 in ransom money.

Police are investigating a kidnapping of a woman in northern California that they now believe to be a hoax that was invented for reasons that are now being investigated.

Police say the woman, 29-year-old Denise Huskins, was “found” about 400 miles away, and believe Huskins’ boyfriend is responsible for orchestrating the kidnap-for-ransom hoax, although they had been unable to find her or any of her family members after she got a lawyer and stopped cooperating with police, according to a Fox News report.

Police are now targeting Huskins and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Aaron Quinn, in a probe that is trying to determine if they did anything illegal to report a random abduction and ask for a ransom of $8,500, according to the report.

Vallejo police spokesman Lt. Kenny Park said in a statement that there was no evidence that she was ever actually abducted, and the case now appears to be an “orchestrated event.”

Police doubted Quinn’s report from the get-go, but investigated it thoroughly anyway, Park said to her reporters, according to Fox News.

Park said police found it to be an “incredible story” that they had “a hard time believing,” a doubt that was later born out by the investigation.

He also expressed irritation and disgust that the police had used 40 detectives to work on the case, squandering public resources and gripping the community in fear, calling it a “wild goose chase,” according to the report.

The search for Huskins ended when she was “found” outside of her father’s home in Huntington Beach, about 420 miles from Vallejo, on Wednesday morning. Her father had traveled to Northern California to help with the search for his daughter, and he received a call from her saying that she had been dropped off at her mother’s house, and since no one was home she had walked 12 blocks to her father’s home near the beach. Her father emotionally told the Associated Press that she simply said she was “OK,” and she wasn’t crying at all, according to the report.

Quinn, her boyfriend, had told police that she had been abducted early Monday, although he didn’t reach out to authorities until the middle of the afternoon. This alone aroused the suspicions of police.

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