The Catalan regional police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, arrested a 19-year-old woman for faking her own kidnapping.

The woman, a native of El Salvador, presently living in Barcelona, sent photographs of herself, bound and gagged, to her parents back home. This surprising tactic was to justify why she was not returning home.

The woman took this course of action because her parents were demanding that she returned to El Salvador to be with her husband.

(News: Barcelona, Cataluña)