Man charged in California kidnapping pleads in separate case

Huskins, 29, turned up safe two days later in her hometown of Huntington Beach, where she says she was dropped off. She showed up hours before the ransom was due.

After Huskins went missing, Vallejo police called the case a “wild goose chase” and a waste of police resources.

Lawyers for couple Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, both 30, deemed the actions by the Vallejo Police Department as “character assassination” and an “unprofessional, and “wholly unfounded campaign of disparagement” for their handling of the home invasion and abduction of Huskins that took place in March on Mare Island”.

After Muller was arrested, Vallejo police told the Vallejo Times-Herald that police had called the kidnapping a hoax because Huskins and Quinn were not talking to them.

“We understand that these contributed to the difficulty and personal ordeal that you have experienced”.

Police officials said the department would evaluate whether it will issue an apology once the FBI investigation is concluded.

After Huskins’ mom told police her daughter had been molested at the age of 12, Detective Matthew Mustard said it made sense that Huskins would make up a kidnapping because sexual assault victims try to get attention, the claim said.

Law firm Kerr and Wagstaffe said in a statement that its attorneys intend to file the claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, against the city of Vallejo on Thursday. “While these comments were based on our findings at the time, they proved to be unnecessarily harsh and offensive”, Bidou said.

The suspect at the center of a kidnap case out of Vallejo, Calif. entered a no contest plea on Friday in a separate matter stemming from a Dublin home invasion.

But the couple’s allegations were substantiated months later in a detailed federal complaint, which included meticulously detailed emails Muller allegedly sent to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter describing the crime.

The claim seeks damages for lost wages, injury to reputation, emotional and physical distress, humiliation, mental anguish, attorneys’ fees and costs and punitive damages in amounts to be determined at trial.

Contact Dianne de Guzman at 707-553-6833.