Vallejo City Officials Keeping Quiet After FBI Affidavit Sheds Bizarre New Details On Kidnapping 'Hoax'
VALLEJO (CBS SF) -- The Vallejo case police originally called a hoax appears to have been a well-planned kidnapping according to new details in a FBI affidavit.
Among items the FBI collected after arresting 38-year-old Matthew Muller for allegedly drugging and tying up Aaron Quinn before kidnapping his girlfriend Denise Huskins were three drones from a Vallejo storage facility.
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In the criminal complaint, federal agents quoted a rambling email they say Muller sent to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Muller allegedly said he and his co-conspirators used them to surveil the Mare Island neighborhood prior to abducting Huskins.
Agents also found video cameras wirelessly set-up allegedly to let Muller monitor Quinn inside his home be sure he was following their instructions after Huskins was thrown in a trunk.
It also turns out Huskins may not have been the intended target. The affidavit claims the kidnappers were after Quinn's ex-fiancee who moved out last year.
According to the affidavit the kidnappers didn't realize they had the wrong woman until after they had Huskins tied up.
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Meanwhile, Vallejo city officials are keeping quiet and insist on waiting for the FBI to wrap-up its case before commenting.
While most in Vallejo city ranks weren't breaking the thin blue line, Councilmember Bob Sampayan and a 30-year-veteran of police work offered up an apology to the couple.
"Of course I would want to say I'm sorry that they've had to go this," Sampayan said. "As victims, I think our city should have been a bit more sensitive in the way we dealt with them."
A retired FBI agent tells KPIX 5 there may be another reason for the wall of silence in the city of Vallejo, and that may be an impending lawsuit or the possibility of a civil grand jury and the city's police department getting called in front of it to explain how they handled Huskins and Quinn.
