- Rogelio Andaverde convinced friends to stage an armed kidnapping
- He showed up the next morning claiming the kidnappers had let him go
- The party-loving man now faces criminal charges for the scheme
Club life: Rogelio Andaverde was arrested for faking his kidnapping so he could go out drinking with friends
Rogelio Andaverde 'arranged' for two masked men to grab him from his home in Edinburg, Texas.
His horrified wife watched as he was dragged at gunpoint from the house and driven away.
She called cops, who launched a hunt for the 34 year old.
Andaverde's wife spent more than five hours with police being interviewed as police searched for the kidnap victim, according to KTVI.
Her husband returned home the following day and said his kidnappers 'just let him go.
Police became suspicious of his story and he later confessed he made up the story because he wanted a night out with friends without his wife.
Two friends had posed as his abductors wearing masks to hide their faces and carrying guns.
'We took this incident very serious because of the circumstances described to us by the wife,' said Sheriff Trevino said.
'Say cheers!': Mr Andaverde has been booked on charges of making a false report and is sitting in a jail cell on a $5,000 bond
'People don't just barge into your house and kidnap you for the hell of it.'
He said Andaverde confessed that he wanted to go out "partying with friends" and came up with the plan.
He added: '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.'
Andaverde was booked into jail and charged with making a false report to police.
He was released after posting$5,000 ( pds3,000) bail.
Reader Comments
Did he consider just "telling" his wife that he wanted a night out with the boys???
There is an epidemic today of pathetic submissive males of little character; They'd rather tell elaborate lies, put themself in the helpless victim role, and play passive-aggressive games than to simply be assertive and honest like a real man. Maybe it's all the BPA's in our environment. Did you know that men today are almost 50% less fertile than they used to be only a couple of decades ago? But perhaps it is best that these overgrown boys do not breed.
Really life is something that always surprisesme. This story reminds me the movie "Fargo". People are incredible. I hope his wife will divorce him but women are sometimes so strange, also. This guy is lucky to be alive and that his friends did not take him for true.