Arrested the young man who extorted the mother of a colleague with killing and kidnapping his son

The National Police has arrested to a minor who, allegedly, extorted the mother of a soccer partner with whom he had kidnapped his son and threatened to kill him if you did not make a transfer Bizum of 10.000 euros. The crime was committed by telephone during an early morning in which the woman's son was away from home.

Police units of Dénia

The mother of the alleged hostage received a call around six in the morning, in which, first, she heard the voice of a man who pretended to be his son in a party atmosphere. In addition, the tone of the person who was speaking seemed to have consumed some type of substance or alcohol.

sequence of events

Next, another boy's voice different from the previous one, in a threatening tone, he told her that he had his son in the trunk of the car and that he was going to kill him if he didn't make the transfer. then that voice rectified and asked for five thousand euros more. All this accompanied by a background noise that simulated gunshots.

Finally, the call ended when the voice on the other end of the phone told her to call her son and then they would call her back. Thus, she and her husband called their son, who answered the call and confirmed that he was in good condition and in the place where he had told them.

Another call alerted them that they were going to kill him before they got there.

The reaction of the parents was to go quickly to pick him up at the party where he was. During this time, the threatened boy in question received another call on a hidden number indicating that they knew his parents were going to pick him up and that they were going to kill him before they got there.

After this, the mother received a hidden call again, where the same previous voice told her to know that before they arrived they were going to kill her son, cutting off the call immediately.

When the parents managed to get to where the son was, he was in perfect condition. Then They notified the police of what happened and filed a complaint.. That was how the Local Judicial Police Brigade took charge of the case.

The detainee confessed that it was a joke

The result of the police investigations, through the Court of Instruction number two of Denia, revealed the phone number from which they had received the extortions. In the same way as the ownership of the line, which it was in the name of the mother of a colleague from the football club where the alleged hostage plays.

Finally, the agents managed to stop the caller who turned out to be sixteen. They took a statement in the presence of his lawyer, accused of a crime of extortion, where he declared that it was a joke that they wanted to play on them.

As a result of the minor's statement, the investigators found out the identity of the other participant in the calls. Thus they informed the Alicante Juvenile Prosecutor of the facts and provided the identity of this second participant in the alleged joke.

The detained minor was released after giving a statement at the police station while waiting to be heard in court.

Fake “virtual express kidnapping” scam

This is the call of some false kidnappers who try to make the victim believe that they have kidnapped a relative or close person, requesting the payment of an amount of money immediately.

The call under threats goes on for quite some time with two targets. The first is to prevent the victim from being able to corroborate the veracity of the information, and the second is to get them to make a quick payment. To do this, the scammer instructs the victim to transfer the money or send it through money transfer companies.

Police advice in these cases

• Do not pick up calls that you do not expect, with a foreign prefix or with a hidden number.
• Be wary if they tell you that a family member has been kidnapped, even if another person is put on or voices are heard in the background.
• Remain calm in the face of pressure from the fake kidnapper, who will use verbal violence of any kind.
• Check the information that the fake hijackers are giving you.
• Do not make any payment, they will demand a quick payment so as not to give time to locate the relative. Do not send any money.
• Do not provide personal data and do not publish them on social networks.
• Notify the National Police (091) and try to locate the alleged hostage through another line, as well as record the malicious call.