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A South Carolina teenager faked his own kidnapping in an attempt to extort $130 in ransom money from his mother. The 19-year-old Emmanuel Franklin is now being charged with blackmail and extortion ABC 13 reported.

Franklin was arrested last week, two days after attempting to execute his plan. Franklin “caused his mother to believe he would be killed by kidnappers” if she could not pay the ransom according to the arrest warrant. Franklin’s mother who has remained unidentified told police that someone called her through a private cell phone number. During the call, she claimed she could hear Franklin and another voice telling her to leave $130 in a mailbox and threatened that he would kill her son if she did not comply.

The mother thought the situation was a bit strange when she noticed the mailbox address was the same as the residential address of Franklin’s father.

Franklin later told police that he faked the kidnapping to get $130 from his mother. It has yet to determine what the 19-year-old needed the money for or who was the other individual on the phone call. However, if convicted of blackmail, Franklin could face up to 10 years in prison and/or financial penalty of up to $5,000, as stated in South Carolina’s Code of Law.

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