Weird to see A sixty-year old man from the U.s. state of New York went the last week very far to avoid the $ 50,000 had to pay in the context of a lost bet: he feigned his own abduction and to be the creditors as the kidnappers.
Police officers found Robert Brandel Wednesday tied up to hands and feet with a rope around his neck in his pick-up truck near Buffalo, in western New York. The man told them that he Monday two men had picked up with whom he made a bet on the Super Bowl had ended. But the duo proved to be armed, robbed him of a 16,000 dollar and obliged him to have two days with them, drive around in his car, before they tied him left behind on a parking lot, so he claimed.
Brandels calm and clean-shaven, avoid did the agents, however, suspect that something is not right with his story. “Further investigations and interrogations revealed that his elaborate story concocted was”, according to a politieverklaring. The police will then the man to the kidnapping invented in order to escape the payment of $ 50,000, an amount that he owed after losing a online groepsweddenschap. the
“Someone who was kidnapped and experienced such a thing, there would normally be a very high heart rate, anxious, and depressed. There would be a lot of emotions have to come,” said agent James O’Callaghan on the local television station WKBW. “He had a few different ways to earn money (with the groepsweddenschap, ed.) but that failed eventually. And now he can that money not paid to the people who make this wager eventually won.”
Brandel was arrested on suspicion of fraud and filing a false politieverklaring. He will be available later this month for the judge to appear.
