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Teen fakes own kidnapping to get $130 from mom, deputies say
By Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Jan 29, 2019A 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.
Deputies said Franklin admitted to faking the kidnapping so he could get the money, WLTX reported.
