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Wild ride, big response
Lots of deputies respond to false kidnap claim
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It was a wild early Saturday for a Mount Vernon cab driver, who hauled a man all the way to Chatham County just to find the man had no money for fare. The man talked the cab driver into taking him to Bulloch County, where he promised he would get the cash, said Bulloch County Sheriff’s Capt. Todd Hutchens. But somewhere along the way, the man made a call and claimed to have been kidnapped and was being held for ransom.
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