Sherri Papini, the California woman notorious for orchestrating her own fake kidnapping in 2016 has accepted a plea deal admitting full responsibility, as first reported by The Sacramento Bee.
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Papini, 39, of Redding, has signed a plea agreement admitting that she orchestrated her own fake kidnapping and pled guilty to making false statements to FBI agents and committing mail fraud, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Tuesday.
Papini is charged with thirty-four counts of mail fraud and one count of making false statements.
Papini was arrested on March 3 after an investigation by the FBI and the Shasta County Sheriff's Office with assistance from the California Department of Justice.
In November 2016, Papini disappeared for several weeks, launching a massive search before she was found. She claimed at the time that she had been kidnapped by two Latina women at gunpoint, when she had actually been staying voluntarily with an ex-boyfriend in Costa Mesa.
The court has not yet scheduled a date for Papini to enter her guilty pleas.
She could face up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer, and up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for the count of mail fraud.
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