{"id":3507,"date":"2010-09-08T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/09\/teen-held-over-ransom-ploy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:55:12","slug":"teen-held-over-ransom-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/teen-held-over-ransom-ploy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen held over ransom ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/man-behindluar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/berita32\/man-behindluar.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><strong>KUALA TERENGGANU<\/strong>: A 17-year-old villager here thought he could make a quick buck for Hari Raya Aidilfitri by demanding a fake ransom.<\/p>\n<p>But his plan to cash in on the misery of others proved to be a bad idea when he was arrested within a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager from Kampung Teluk Pasu, Manir, tried to extort RM7,000 from another villager, whose 15-year-old daughter went missing on July 31.<\/p>\n<p>In his police report then, the father said he believed she had run away with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he decided to place a missing person&#8217;s advertisement in a local daily.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager sent a text message to the girl&#8217;s father, aged 64, claiming that she had been kidnapped by him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teen alleged that she was being held at an undisclosed location and demanded a RM7,000 ransom,&#8221; acting state Criminal Investigation Department chief Superintendent K. Manoharan said.<\/p>\n<p>Suspecting something amiss, the girl&#8217;s father lodged a police report.<\/p>\n<p>A special police team investigated and traced the number back to the teenager, who after being arrested on Monday, admitted to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>He is being investigated for extortion, Manoharan said, adding that police were still looking for the missing girl.<\/p>\n<p>In another matter, Manoharan said state police had made 29 seizures of firecrackers in the past two weeks, of which 16 cases had been brought to court.<\/p>\n<p>The rest were being reviewed by the deputy public prosecutor&#8217;s office.-NST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA TERENGGANU: A 17-year-old villager here thought he could make a quick buck for Hari Raya Aidilfitri by demanding a fake ransom. But his plan to cash in on the misery of others proved to be a bad idea when he was arrested within a few hours. The teenager from Kampung Teluk Pasu, Manir, tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}