VALLEJO, Calif. — A couple reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Northern California city and its police department after investigators dismissed the woman’s elaborate and bizarre kidnapping as a hoax. Police realized the couple were telling the truth after a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney, Matthew Muller, was implicated in another crime and tied to the abduction. Quinn’s mother, Marianne Quinn, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the settlement in the lawsuit was reached Thursday. Muller used a drone to spy on the couple before he broke into their home with a fake gun, tied them up and made them drink a sleep-inducing liquid, prosecutors said. Muller was arrested in an attempted robbery at another San Francisco Bay Area home.

Source: National Post March 16, 2018 17:37 UTC