Mafia Hoax: Fake Kidnapping Photos By PA Man Prompts Friends ... $126,000 before law enforcement unraveled his elaborate scheme, authorities said. Joshua B. Fernando, 27, of Salisbury Township, was ...

Fernando convinced his victims that he had traveled to Europe on business in May 2024 but soon called them in distress, claiming he had crashed a Mafia boss's bulletproof car in the United Kingdom and ...

(WHTM) – A Lancaster County man was sentenced to prison after faking his own kidnapping by the mafia in an attempt to receive ransom money. Joshua B. Fernando, 27, of Salisbury Township ...

He also received two years of probation. Fernando Told Victims He Was Taken Hostage by a Mafia Boss in the United Kingdom "Fernando ... told the victims he traveled to Europe in May 2024 for what ...

While overseas, Fernando said he was taken prisoner by the Mafia after he was involved in a car crash with an “expensive, bullet-proof vehicle” owned by a United Kingdom Mafia boss ...

Victims told investigators that Fernando had first called them claiming he was involved in a car crash in the United Kingdom with an expensive, bullet-proof vehicle owned by a Mafia boss.

BUT ONCE ABROAD, HE TOLD THE VICTIMS HE HAD BEEN CAPTURED BY THE MAFIA AND WOULD BE KILLED IF HIS CAPTORS DIDN’T RECEIVE A LARGE RANSOM. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SAYS FERNANDO EVEN SENT ...