A strip club bartender has been arrested for faking her own kidnapping so that her husband would not know she had gone home with another man.

Karla Vasquez, 32, called her husband David Pacheco while he worked a nightshift at 4.30am on Thursday. She said two men were sat in her car outside their home.

Pacheco rushed home at 6am to find the car and his wife missing. He called Vasquez, who told him she had been kidnapped and was held hostage.

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This was the appeal Miami police issued to find Karla Vasquez (pictured) after she told her husband she had been kidnapped on Thursday. Police later found her in her car unharmed with a man she'd gone home with

Panicked, he called 911 to report a kidnapping.

But after hours of searching, police spotted Vasquez driving her car through Miami at 3pm that day with the man she had met.

Under interrogation, Vasquez admitted to police that she had gone straight from work to spend the night at another man's house, and that she had not been mistreated or harmed.

The man, who was also taken in for questioning, said he met Vasquez at Styx bar - her place of work - then bar-hopped through the night before going back to his.

He showed police photographs they had taken on their bar crawl looking happy and excited.

Vasquez was charged with faking a crime, which is punishable with up to a year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.