California mom Sherri Papini's alleged abduction hoax cost taxpayers more than $230,000 and 'countless' hours of manpower, according to authorities.
Thirty-nine-year-old Papini, due in court today at 2pm local time, was arrested last Thursday for faking her disappearance in 2016.
Papini vanished from her home in Redding, California, on November 2, 2016, while out for a run and reappeared on November 24, after a highly publicized search.
She told the world she had been kidnapped by two Hispanic women who beat her and tortured her. In reality, according to the police, she convinced an ex-boyfriend to pick her up and drive her to his apartment in Southern California, by falsely claiming her husband was 'abusing' her.
Her fake abduction claims cost the public more than $230,000 and police time that could have been employed solving 'actual crimes,' CNN reported Tuesday.
In a cautious estimate last week, Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson said Papini cost public safety 'in excess of $150,000 dollars in resources to investigate her knowingly false claims and staged abduction.'
Federal prosecutors, in a 55-page criminal complaint against Papini, also detailed how the public raised $49,000 for the supposedly traumatized Sherri and her husband.
The complaint states the couple withdrew $11,000 to pay off their credit cards and spent the rest on 'personal expenses.'
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