American girl fakes abduction after operating out of cash; booked for overstaying

By IANS

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old US citizen staying right here allegedly staged her personal abduction after she ran out of cash in an try and extort money from her mother and father, police mentioned on Sunday.

The girl, recognized as Chloe Mclaughlin, had come to Delhi on May 3.

She is a graduate from a college within the US and her father, who lives in Washington DC, is an ex-army officer, they mentioned.

Police mentioned that on July 7, Mclaughlin known as her mom and mentioned that she was in an “unsafe atmosphere” and was being assaulted and crushed by a person identified to her.

She didn’t disclose her present location although, they mentioned.

Her mom approached the authorities in India, and the US Embassy forwarded the matter to New Delhi District police.

The case had been reported after greater than two and half months of arrival of the sufferer in India, police mentioned.

On July 10, Mclaughlin once more spoke to her mom by way of a video name on WhatsApp, however simply earlier than her mom may get some extra details about her, a person entered the room and their name was lower brief.

The United States Embassy conjectured that the lady was both incapacitated or was being prevented from contacting her household or Embassy, mentioned Amrutha Guguloth, Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi.

Police mentioned they used technical intelligence and, with the intention to verify her most up-to-date whereabouts, sought assist from Yahoo.

com for the IP deal with Mclaughlin had used to ship an e-mail to American Citizen Services concerning her immigration doc work on July 9.

When the Bureau of Immigration was requested to supply the immigration type of the alleged sufferer, they gave police the deal with she had shared with them, which was in Greater Noida, the officer mentioned.

Accordingly, police performed raids at a lodge, the place she was suspected to have stayed.

But the employees there mentioned nobody by her identify had checked into their lodge.

Meanwhile, investigators discovered that the Mclaughlin was utilizing another person’s WiFi when she made the video name to her mom, Guguloth mentioned.

“Our team tracked the IP address and the mobile network associated with that IP address, which led us to one Okoroafor Chibuike Okoro, 31, a Nigerian national, in Gurugram. He told the police that the woman was staying in Greater Noida,” she mentioned.

Following his enter, police tracked down Mclaughlin and arrested her.

Mclaughlin, when she was questioned, confessed that she had staged her abduction as she had run out of cash inside few days of reaching Delhi, following which she and her boyfriend, Okoro, hatched a plan to extort cash from her mother and father, the DCP mentioned.

The girl’s passport had expired on June 6 and her boyfriend’s passport too had run out of validity, police mentioned.

She had come to India to stick with Okoro whom she had befriended on Facebook earlier than coming right here.

Both of them had been dwelling collectively right here and had been enthusiastic about singing.

That could be the explanation they turned associates, the police officer mentioned.

Legal motion is being taken in opposition to each for overstaying in India with out a legitimate passport and visa, police mentioned.

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old US citizen staying right here allegedly staged her personal abduction after she ran out of cash in an try and extort money from her mother and father, police mentioned on Sunday.

The girl, recognized as Chloe Mclaughlin, had come to Delhi on May 3.

She is a graduate from a college within the US and her father, who lives in Washington DC, is an ex-army officer, they mentioned.

Police mentioned that on July 7, Mclaughlin known as her mom and mentioned that she was in an “unsafe atmosphere” and was being assaulted and crushed by a person identified to her.

She didn’t disclose her present location although, they mentioned.

Her mom approached the authorities in India, and the US Embassy forwarded the matter to New Delhi District police.

The case had been reported after greater than two and half months of arrival of the sufferer in India, police mentioned.

On July 10, Mclaughlin once more spoke to her mom by way of a video name on WhatsApp, however simply earlier than her mom may get some extra details about her, a person entered the room and their name was lower brief.

The United States Embassy conjectured that the lady was both incapacitated or was being prevented from contacting her household or Embassy, mentioned Amrutha Guguloth, Deputy Commissioner of Police, New Delhi.

Police mentioned they used technical intelligence and, with the intention to verify her most up-to-date whereabouts, sought assist from Yahoo.

com for the IP deal with Mclaughlin had used to ship an e-mail to American Citizen Services concerning her immigration doc work on July 9.

When the Bureau of Immigration was requested to supply the immigration type of the alleged sufferer, they gave police the deal with she had shared with them, which was in Greater Noida, the officer mentioned.

Accordingly, police performed raids at a lodge, the place she was suspected to have stayed.

But the employees there mentioned nobody by her identify had checked into their lodge.

Meanwhile, investigators discovered that the Mclaughlin was utilizing another person’s WiFi when she made the video name to her mom, Guguloth mentioned.

“Our team tracked the IP address and the mobile network associated with that IP address, which led us to one Okoroafor Chibuike Okoro, 31, a Nigerian national, in Gurugram. He told the police that the woman was staying in Greater Noida,” she mentioned.

Following his enter, police tracked down Mclaughlin and arrested her.

Mclaughlin, when she was questioned, confessed that she had staged her abduction as she had run out of cash inside few days of reaching Delhi, following which she and her boyfriend, Okoro, hatched a plan to extort cash from her mother and father, the DCP mentioned.

The girl’s passport had expired on June 6 and her boyfriend’s passport too had run out of validity, police mentioned.

She had come to India to stick with Okoro whom she had befriended on Facebook earlier than coming right here.

Both of them had been dwelling collectively right here and had been enthusiastic about singing.

That could be the explanation they turned associates, the police officer mentioned.

Legal motion is being taken in opposition to each for overstaying in India with out a legitimate passport and visa, police mentioned.