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A 24-year-old<\/g> man was sentenced to 30 days hard labour<\/g> after he falsely reported that he had been kidnapped by armed men earlier this month.<\/p>

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Jonathan Ramcharran was charged with wasteful employment of police time by making a false police report. He pleaded guilty when he appeared before Magistrate Cherril-Ann Antoine in the San Fernando Magistrate Court, south of here on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charge was laid against Ramcharran following a report made to the San Fernando Criminal Investigations Department (CID), on Wednesday by a female relative, who had indicated that the accused had been kidnapped on the same day by armed men demanding a TT$100,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) ransom.<\/p>

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But the police said that on investigating the matter, officers discovered several irregularities and Ramcharran was discovered by officers attached to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, walking along Frederick Street, in the capital, Port of Spain.<\/p>

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