A male and a female tourist from Minnesota spent their weekend behind bars in Chicago for playing a prank that could have very well led police officers to single out locals who fit descriptions of robbers they claimed

According to Katie Mager, 27, she and her boyfriend Ryan Reiersgaard, 27, had upwards of $25,000 worth of cash and valuables taken from them in a stick-up that went down while they wandered lost around the Lower Wacker Drive area at around 1:30 am last Thursday, December 7. Mager described one of the three men they alleged to have carried the theft out, to look "like a milk-dud or Fat Albert" and to smell of marijuana. The fact that Mager and Reiersgaard couldn't provide adequate descriptions of their stolen items raised a red flag for authorities.

The couple's reluctance to track the Apple items they said were stolen, motivated officials to investigate the complaint more deeply. When Mager and Reiersgaard were informed that a review of recent surveillance footage from O'Hare International Airport turned up images of them without any luggage at all, they confessed to making the story up for the fun of it.

During his bond hearing in court on Sunday, Reiersgaard put responsibility for the stunt on to Mager, saying that he was only playing along. Mager admits to planning the entire prank as a means of doing something wild for his birthday. She reportedly told investigators she was willing to “only be honest with them if they promised to let her go home.”

Mager told investigators she “made a mistake, had bad friends and is sorry.” Beyond that, she said she’d “only be honest with them if they promised to let her go home,” Carlson said.

Court documents list the belongings that Mager and Reiersgaard reported stolen to include a wallet of unspecified value, an iPad Mini (priced at $150), a suitcase that cost $300 to buy, a $2,000 laptop, a Louis Vuitton suitcase that goes for $3,000 and a Burberry purse that falls within a similar price range, and a $12,000 engagement ring. In addition, Mager and Reiersgaard claimed they were shorted $5,000 in cash during the alleged knifepoint robbery.

Mager and Reiersgaard were held on $10,000 bond for a felony count of disorderly conduct related to the filing of a false report.

Source: nydailynews.com