Cops arrest ‘kidnap’ victim

A CUREPE woman, who three weeks ago claimed she was kidnapped by four men, and for whose safe release a ransom of $20,000 was paid, was arrested over the weekend along with four men by St Joseph police, whose investigations showed she was never kidnapped. Police are working on information that the 17-year-old woman and a 23-year-old male friend, planned the kidnapping in order to extort money from a relative of the young woman. St Joseph police received a report of kidnapping on Monday July 21 and began investigations. The teen was released near UWI in St Augustine four days later, after a ransom of $20,000 was paid at Gulf City, San Fernando. Officers arrested the alleged victim and four men at a house in Curepe.