Posted: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Wednesday morning that they don't expect to press charges against a group of young men responsible for what officers say was a fake kidnapping Tuesday night in southeast Charlotte.
The whole thing was a prank, police say.
Officers were called about 9 p.m. after witnesses reported seeing a young man being forced into a car with his hands tied. It happened behind the Walmart store at the Arboretum shopping center, at Providence and Pineville-Matthews roads.
With a description of the kidnapping vehicle from witnesses, police spotted the car a short time later. Officers say they learned that the people involved in the incident knew each other and had staged the whole incident.
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