…As Papini told it, two Latina women held her at gunpoint and kept her in a small closet during three weeks of captivity. Investigators say she was actually spending time with an ex-boyfriend in Orange County, whom she had asked to come pick her up in Northern California.
Papini claimed her kidnappers drove a dark SUV and made her lie down in the back, saying her hips became sore after lying prone for over 40 minutes. In a 55-page affidavit filed Thursday in federal court, prosecutors said her ex-boyfriend picked her up in a rented sports car. She slipped into the back seat and at one point took a nap as he drove her to Southern California.
She told investigators that her kidnappers played “really annoying Mexican music” and that she heard slivers of a plan to sell her to someone in law enforcement as part of a human-trafficking deal. During the time she was missing, prosecutors said, she never left her ex-boyfriend’s home in Orange County…
Source: Sherri Papini’s alleged kidnapping hoax stoked racial division, fear – Los Angeles Times
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