A 30-year-old man from Char­lieville is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the South Dis­trict Mas­ters’ Court af­ter po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping was fab­ri­cat­ed, re­sult­ing in the un­nec­es­sary de­ploy­ment of sig­nif­i­cant po­lice re­sources.

Be­tween 11 am and 5 pm on Thurs­day, of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion ar­rest­ed Daoud Mo­hammed, 30, of As­saraf Road, Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, for the of­fence of Waste­ful Em­ploy­ment of the Po­lice.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers car­ried out sur­veil­lance along As­saraf Road, where Mo­hammed was ar­rest­ed pur­suant to a war­rant is­sued in con­nec­tion with the of­fence.