Kidnap No Hoax! I Was Drugged And Bound During Abduction: 'Victim's' Boyfriend

Attorneys representing a man being investigated for faking the kidnapping and ransom of Denise Huskins, his 30-year-old girlfriend, held a news conference this afternoon to say the crime is not a hoax.

Daniel Russo and Amy Morton, attorneys for Aaron Quinn, said their client was drugged and bound during the abduction, which took place between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Monday morning. Quinn has fully cooperated with the police investigation, according to his lawyers.

“What has been coming out makes him look like he’s somehow perpetrating a hoax and I want to make it clear to everyone that we have not seen evidence yet that this was some kind of hoax,” Russo said.

“As to the victim and her failure to cooperate with police, we don’t know what that’s motivated by,” Russo said. “And it’s unfair to speculate.”

Russo said he understands that there are significant pressures on the Vallejo Police Department and the FBI, but “there seems to be a stream of blatant lies coming out about our client, about the victim and about what’s going on.”

“God help us, but we want to rely on the FBI and the Vallejo Police Department to solve this crime,” Russo said.

Wednesday night Vallejo police said that Huskins and Quinn had wasted the time and resources of the department, and that the two Vallejo residents owed police and the FBI an apology for sending them on a “wild goose chase.”

“We have had over 40 police detectives at the local, state and federal levels, and over 100 support personnel assisting the investigation, working around the clock to help locate Ms. Hoskins,” Lt. Kenny Park said.

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“The fact that we’ve wasted all these resources is really upsetting,” he said, adding that, “Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins owe this community an apology.”

Quinn contacted police on Monday around 2 p.m. to report that Huskins, 30, had been abducted by strangers from their home in the 500 block of Kirkland Avenue on Mare Island in the early morning hours that day, and that he had since received a ransom demand for $8,500. The report triggered a massive search of Mare Island, but Park said police found the story “incredible” and “hard to believe” from the beginning.

“We could not substantiate any of it,” Park said.

Wednesday morning police in Southern California announced via Twitter that Huskins had been found safe at a relative’s home in Huntington Beach.

Officials arranged a jet to fly her to Northern California, but they were unable to locate her, Park said Wednesday night. Police now understand Huskins has retained a lawyer.

Park added that they’ll refer the case for state or federal charges if sufficient information can be gathered.

--Bay City News

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