Solano County issued search warrants Friday allowing Vallejo police to search internet sites as part of an investigation into an alleged kidnapping for ransom, NBC Bay Area has learned.
After days of briefing the media Vallejo police kept silent on the case and did not provide any updates on the investigation Friday.
Denise Huskins, 29, was reportedly abducted Monday morning from a Vallejo home, police said. She was later found safe Wednesday morning in Huntington Beach, according to her family and police.
The case took twist Wednesday night when authorities said Huskins, a physical therapist, and her family had disappeared after promising earlier to talk with police.
Vallejo police that night said the alleged kidnapping was an "orchestrated event."
Police also said Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, have become the target of the investigation as police probe whether they did anything illegal in their report of a random, violent abduction and a ransom request of $8,500.
After police called the kidnapping a hoax, Huskins and Quinn — who reported the kidnapping to police — fought back through their lawyers on Thursday.
Huskins' attorney, Doug Rappaport, held a press conference late Thursday and said the alleged kidnapping is "no hoax" and not a "laughing matter."
Rappaport said Huskins spent Thursday at the Vallejo Police Department "with the hope of clearing her name because she is absolutely, unequivocally, 100 percent, positively a victim."
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"She was a victim of a very serious assault, and like a number of women who have been victims of serious physical and emotional assault she was initially hesitant and reticent to come forward," Rappaport said, adding Huskins was hesitant because she was accused of being a suspect.
Earlier in the day, Quinn's lawyers held a press conference stressing that their client was not involved in any kind of hoax.
Attorneys Amy Morton and Dan Russo told reporters that police had not provided "an iota" of evidence so far to show that the kidnapping was faked and that Quinn was a victim and had been drugged by kidnappers
"Quinn cooperated fully with authorities, he spent almost 17 hours being interrogated and refused right to counsel," Russo said, adding that police seized his phone and computer.
