Sherri Papini, a California mother who alleged she was kidnapped at gunpoint more than 5 years ago, has now been arrested and charged with fraud.
Sherri Papini, a California mother who disappeared for weeks in 2016 and claimed she’d been kidnapped at gunpoint, made up the story and had been staying with an ex-boyfriend, authorities said Thursday.
Three weeks later she was found along Interstate 5 in rural Yolo County, with a chain around her waist and a “brand” on her shoulder she said was inflicted by her captors, according to court documents. Papini was in custody Thursday. Her case did not appear in online federal court records, and it was not clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.
She told investigators that two Hispanic women with a handgun kept her captive, and investigators looked for those people and enlisted an FBI sketch artist, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit filed in the criminal case. The ex said he didn’t know “what the final plan was” or if they’d get back together, the affidavit says.
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