| Veracruz Teen Fakes Own Kidnapping, Instead of Ransom, Gets Arrested ABC News | |
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VERACRUZ - Mexican police have arrested a teenager who faked her own kidnapping so that she could get money to go on vacations with her ex-boyfriend and four other friends.
Nineteen year-old Arely Soto actually wanted her parents to believe that criminals had kidnapped her so that they would pay her friends a $20,000 ransom for her "release."
To get away with this, Arely simply disappeared from her home in the state of Veracruz one day and had her friends call her family, posing as bloodthirsty criminals.
... Mexican newspaper Zocalo reports that Arely's parents agreed to make the ransom. Police then arrested the teens as they drove to the town where they were going to collect the money.
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