Police: Sumter teen blackmailed mother for $130 by making her think he would be killed

BY KAYLA ROBINS
kayla@theitem.com
Posted 1/28/19

A 19-year-old is being accused of extorting his mother for $130 by making up a story that he had been kidnapped.

Emmanuel Franklin, of Covent Garden Drive in Sumter, was arrested on Jan. 24, states a release from the Sumter County Sheriff's …

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