In today’s edition of the world’s dumbest criminals, a Sumter teen has been charged with blackmail after faking his own kidnapping and blackmailing his mother for $130. Yes, you read that right! $130.
WLTX 19 reports, Emmanuel Franklin, 19 caused his mother to believe he would be killed by kidnappers if she did not put $130 money into a mailbox on Bagnal Drive. Franklin’s mother told deputies she received a call from her son and an unknown man from a private number on January 22. The unknown man reportedly demanded she put $130 in a mailbox on Bagnal Drive or her son would be hurt or killed.
Franklin reportedly later told officers he made up the story to get $130 from his mother.
Honestly, $130 is a significantly low amount of money to demand in a kidnapping, what do you think Franklin was trying to purchase with the money?
