Teenage girl connives with two friends to fake own kidnap, demands ransom from her family

Detectives in Kenya have arrested a 17-year-old girl alongside two friends for alleged conspiracy and self-kidnapping.

The Directorates of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in a statement on Monday, September 30, 2024, said the supposed victim conspired with the two male accomplices to stage her own kidnapping in order to extort the hefty sum from her own family.

"Detectives in Imenti North, Meru County, Kenya have apprehended three 17-year-olds who orchestrated a sham kidnapping in Kainginyo, Thimbiri location, before audaciously demanding Sh6 million ransom from the "victims" family," the statement read. 

“In a classic case of misguided get-rich-quick mentality, the three, two males and a female, faked the kidnapping of the female, then called her parents with the demands lest their daughter disappear for good

"On receiving information of a missing child on September 24, officers at Meru Police Station geared up for a scrupulous manhunt within the locality, reassuring the distraught family whose negotiations with the kidnappers and frantic search for their kin had resulted in futility.

"Joining in the investigation, Imenti North detectives uncovered a sinister plot. The supposed victim, Jane (not her real name), had conspired with the two male accomplices to stage her own kidnapping, aiming to extort a hefty sum from her own family.

"Following a forensic trail, Jane and her accomplices were smoked out of their hideout in Kainginyo, where a discovery of 20 rolls of Marijuana was also made.

“As the family thanks the good heavens for the safety of their kin, she and her partners in crime are cooling heels at an Igoji Police Station pending arraignment for conspiracy to defraud and being in possession of narcotics.”