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Police Arrest Two in Case of Missing Maddy

Held in alleged plot to claim reward money

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 29, 2007 4:53 AM CDT

(Newser) – Police in Spain have arrested two people in an extortion plot connected to the disappearance of British tot Madeleine McCann. The pair, one of them an Italian man wanted in France for child abuse, were arrested near Gibraltar after trying to blackmail the McCann family,... Read full story »

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