A 34-year-old Texax man staged his own kidnapping in order to go out partying with friends.
Rogelio Andaverde of Edinburg, Texas was charged with making a false report and released on $5,000 bail, The San Antonio Express-News reported.
According to the police report, Andaverde was at home with his wife, Maria Hernandez, on Oct. 1, when two masked men came into their home carrying guns and forcing him from his home. Hernandez called the police quickly after, Express-News reported.
Law enforcement took the call seriously and began a fanned out search for Andaverde; a Department of Public Safety helicopter and a dozen deputies were called to assist in the search for Andaverde, but after several hours with no leads, the search was called off.
"We took this incident very serious because of the circumstances described to us by the wife," Hidalgo County Sheriff Guadalupe Treviño told Express-News. "People don't just barge into your house and kidnap you for the hell of it."
Andaverde returned home mid-morning nearly two days later on Oct. 3, and said the kidnappers "showed mercy and set him free." In a later investigation, he confessed to staging the kidnapping to "spend time with his friends and party," Express-News reported.
"We have people file false reports all the time, and we put them in jail for it," Sheriff Treviño told Express News, "But I've never had someone do it just to get out of the house."
"I don't think his wife appreciated being kept until 4 or 5 in the morning, being interviewed by the cops while her husband was out doing who knows what with who knows who - he's going to have a lot of answering to do," Trevino told Express-News.