Sherri Papini

Sherri Papini will pay more than $300000 in restitution to the agencies that investigated the hoax and provided her victim compensation as part of a plea ...

The government has agreed to recommend that she be sentenced "to the low end" of the sentencing guidelines determined by the court, according to the plea agreement. Lauren Horwood, a spokesperson for the US attorney's office, told BuzzFeed News that the $127,567.60 in restitution that Papini agreed to pay the Social Security Administration was for disability benefits she received based on her claims of being a crime victim. As part of a plea agreement announced Tuesday, she will plead guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements.

Sherri Papini's 2016 disappearance prompted a three-week search. This week, she admitted she made it up and agreed to a plea bargain, the authorities said.

Ms. Papini told the authorities that she had been abducted and that her captors had leashed her to a pole inside a closet and given her a bucket of cat litter to use as a toilet. She was arrested on March 3 after a criminal complaint was filed that day. They said she had inflicted bruises on herself to support her story. But instead of retracting her story, Ms. Papini continued to make false statements, the authorities said. On Nov. 24, 2016, a truck driver spotted her along an interstate in Yolo County, more than 140 miles south of where she had disappeared, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Mr. Papini told investigators that he used the Find My iPhone app to locate her phone and her earbuds, which were entangled with strands of hair, about a mile from their home.

Papini, who was arrested March 3, agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of making false statements to a federal law enforcement ...

Instead, she doubled down and “continued to make false statements about her purported abductors,” the Justice Department said last month. The man later told authorities that he helped Papini “run away” when she claimed her husband was abusing her, according to court documents. In August 2020, Papini was interviewed by a federal agent and a Shasta County Sheriff’s Office detective. “The investigation eventually showed … that this was a false narrative Papini fabricated,” Phillip A. Talbert, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, said in a statement last month. I was filled with so much relief and revulsion at once,” Keith Papini said in the statement. Authorities say the bruises and burns she suffered from her “abductors” are thought to be self-inflicted. When Sherri Papini was found alone on an interstate highway nearly 150 miles from her home on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, the Northern California mother told police she had been abducted while jogging by two Hispanic women at gunpoint and was branded with a heated tool. Papini will pay more than $300,000 in restitution to local, state and federal agencies, according to the plea agreement. “My reaction was one of extreme happiness and overwhelming nausea as my eyes and hands scanned her body. On Nov. 2, 2016, Papini went for a late-morning jog while her husband was at work, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told reporters at the time. Her case made national headlines, including in The Washington Post. After he found her cellphone and ear buds about a mile away from their home, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office listed her as a missing person who was at risk.

Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, has signed a plea deal and will confess she made up the entire ...

She faces a maximum sentences of 25 years in prison and up to $500,000 in fines. She told police she had been abducted and branded by two women who kept her chained in a closet. “I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done.”

In 2016, Sherri Papini made national news as a missing person, only for the story to unravel as authorities realized the kidnapping had been a hoax.

The AP report, however, notes that prosecutors have agreed to recommend a lower sentence for Papini, with the publication stating that the current estimates is between eight and 14 months. The mail fraud count, meanwhile, carries a maximum of 20 years, as well as its own fine of up to $250,000. Under the terms of the deal, she will plead guilty to one count each of mail fraud and making false statements.

Kidnapping Hoax Plea Deal In California. (Sacramento, CA) — A Redding woman who made national headlines about a story that she was kidnapped and tortured ...

Sherri Papini, who claimed she was kidnapped in 2016, has now admitted it was all a hoax and agreed to a plea deal which includes counts of lying to a ...

Sherri Papini agreed to plead guilty to charges of lying to federal officers and mail fraud.

Any Hispanic woman at that time, I'm sure, is getting an eyebrow raise and looking in there wondering where she could be connected or one of the suspects," Johnson said. She accused the women of brutally torturing her. The conditions of her disappearance put neighbors on edge.

Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, has signed a plea deal and will confess she made up the entire ...

She faces a maximum sentences of 25 years in prison and up to $500,000 in fines. She told police she had been abducted and branded by two women who kept her chained in a closet. “I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done.”

In November 2016, a Californian woman Sherri Papini claimed that she was kidnapped. After three weeks, she reappeared almost 200 miles away from where she ...

The prosecutors said that she was apparently staying with her boyfriend in Costa Mesa during the period she claimed she had been kidnapped and remained missing. I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." In November 2016, a Californian woman Sherri Papini claimed that she was kidnapped.

Papini's staged kidnapping cost the California Victim's Compensation Board over $30,000 in therapy visits and an ambulance trip, and cost the United States ...

I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done." Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? But the assumption is she will ask for probation or no jail time." "She can't appeal the decision. Papini's staged kidnapping cost the California Victim's Compensation Board over $30,000 in therapy visits and an ambulance trip, and cost the United States Social Security Administration more than $127,000, which she will be required to pay back. Rahmani says he expects either no fine or a nominal one.

Papini, 39, of Redding, has agreed to plead guilty to two of the 35 federal charges against her. Court documents show she will admit to committing mail fraud ...

“She had been branded on her right shoulder, although the exact content of the brand was indistinguishable,” according to prosecutors. She also obtained thousands of dollars of aid from the state for therapy sessions for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder she claimed was caused by her kidnapping. “Before doing so, Papini left her regular cellular telephone on the ground next to strands of her hair.” “I will work the rest of my life to make amends for what I have done.” A 55-page affidavit filed in federal court detailed how Papini allegedly faked the kidnapping and stayed with a former boyfriend for three weeks. She faces a maximum of 25 years in prison on the charges.

Sherri Papini is scheduled to be back in federal court in Sacramento on Monday to be arraigned on charges related to faking her own kidnapping in 2016.

The California mother who was arrested for the 2016 kidnapping hoax appeared in court in advance of a hearing next week where she is expected to plead ...

Papini reappeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 and provided a description of her fake kidnappers to an FBI sketch artist, prosecutors said. On Tuesday, Papini released a statement through her attorney and said, “I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so sorry for the pain I’ve caused my family, my friends, all the good people who needlessly suffered because of my story and those who worked so hard to try to help me.” She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11.