TAMPA, FL -- A Hillsborough County pastor faked his kidnapping so he could cheat on his wife without getting caught, Hillsborough Sheriff's deputies said.
According to deputies Wikler Moran-Mora, pastor of the International Missionary Society of the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement, texted his wife Tuesday night that he had been kidnapped, but she should not to panic or worry. After several similar texts claiming he was negotiating his release, Moran-Mora's wife did panic and call sheriff's deputies.
PHOTOS: Click here to see our mugshot slideshowHillsborough deputies launched a full scale search for the missing pastor, with more than a dozen deputies taking part.
Sheriff's spokesman JD Callaway told ABC Action News.com, they traced Moran-Mora's location through his cell phone and found him with another woman. Callaway says the pastor confessed he concocted the kidnap story to keep the tryst from his wife.
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