Police say last week a Texas man staged his own kidnapping so that he could sneak away and throw back a few beers with his buddies. According to a release from the Hildalgo County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Rogelio Andaverde was at home with his wife, Maria Hernandez, in rural Northeast Edinburg when two men donning masks and carrying guns forced their way inside about 10:30 p.m. – they made off with Andaverde.
Sheriff Guadalupe Trevino said Hernandez immediately called authorities and was “petrified” after seeing what she thought was her husband’s abduction. “We took this incident very serious because of the circumstances described to us by the wife,” he said. “People don’t just barge into your house and kidnap you for the hell of it.”
A search was initiated utilizing a Department of Public Safety helicopter as well as a dozen deputies. However, that search proved unsuccessful and was called off after several hours. Mid-morning, just shy of two days later, Andaverde returned home claiming his captors had released him. After a subsequent investigation, it was determined that Andaverde had actually staged the event in order to “spend time with his friends and party.”
Trevino said, “We have people file false reports all the time, and we put them in jail for it, but I’ve never had someone do it just to get out of the house. 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 has to first answer a charge of making a false report to police, a Class B misdemeanor. His bond was set at $5,000.
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