The search for Ransom for a boy of Virginia Beach was a fraud, according to police – the news Virginia

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.

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

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.