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Police: The search for Ransom for Virginia Beach Boy, 12 -year -old, was a fraud -Richmond Times -Dispatch

Police: The search for Ransom for Virginia Beach Boy, 12 -year -old, was a fraud -Richmond Times -Dispatch

The ransom texts sent to the family of 12-year-old Juan Asevedo were fraud abroad, police said on Thursday.

Asevedo’s parents announced that he had disappeared last Friday night after he did not return home from an expected visit to a friend’s house. Police reported amber alert early Saturday and began to investigate the boy’s disappearance as a possible abduction after the family was requested for a ransom during Facebook live, in which they sought help to find Acevedo.







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The flowers are placed along a pond outside Cambria in the Cornerstone apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to remember the life of 12-year-old Juan Sebastian Meja Aseved On water two days after police issued a signal to amber. (Billy Shuerman / Virgin Pilot)


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Later, his body was found in a pond at the entrance of Cambria in the Cornerstone complex.

From the weekend, police have been working to find who may have sent the ransom messages. According to Virginia Beach Police Department, investigators are partnering with federal officers to track the source of someone outside the United States; Police said the messages were “fraud to get money from a family in trouble.”

There is no suspected crime or false game at the death of Asevedo.

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