LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of posing as a federal marshal to kidnap a distant cousin’s wife and put her on a plane to the Philippines, police said Wednesday.
Wearing a fake badge and a shirt imprinted with “U.S. Federal Agent,” Gregory Denny, 37, turned up at the Riverside County home of Craig Hibbard, a distant cousin, on Jan. 15, said Lt. Duane Wisehart of the Hemet Police Department.
Displaying what turned out to be a pellet gun, Denny reportedly handcuffed Hibbard’s wife, Cherrie Belle, and told the couple she was being deported, Wisehart said. Denny allegedly drove Belle, 28, south to the U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta.
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