text: Three law enforcement agencies have been searching for a 19-year-old Johns Creek man since last Saturday; now they're asking for help from the public in finding him. 
   
   Aftab M. Aslam, who is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, 165 pounds and has medium-length black hair, was first reported as being kidnapped on April 27 at 10 a.m. Johns Creek Police responded to his Morton Crossing address, where officers were told he was missing from his home. 
   
   "Aslam's family reported that they had received a phone text stating that he had been kidnapped," a news release from the city said. 
   
   Bringing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) into the case, investigators found the phone used to send the text and discovered that Aslam had been the one to purchase it. Now authorities believe Aslam may have sent the text to his family. 
   
   Anyone who has had contact with Aslam or has any information regarding his whereabouts should contact Det. James Harris at 678-274-8348 or by e-mail at: james.harris@johnscreekga.gov. ||||| This post was contributed by a community member. 
   
   A Johns Creek man originally reported to be kidnapped April 27 returned to his Morton Crossing home unharmed Sunday evening around 9. Aftab Aslam told investigators he left on his own. 
   
   Aslam was reported missing about 10 a.m. on April 27 from his parents' home. They received an early morning text saying the 19-year-old was kidnapped. 
   
   Investigators from Johns Creek, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation discovered that Aslam had bought the cell phone that sent the text, and that no one else had handled the phone. 
   
   Aslam told police he left home for personal reasons. Investigators are verifying his account, and charges have not been filed yet. ||||| Just One More Thing... 
   
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target: – A 19-year-old college student was flunking English again, so he did what any struggling student fearful of mom and dad's wrath would do: faked his own kidnapping, police say. Aftab Aslam's parents got a text saying the Georgia Gwinnett College student had been kidnapped; if they called police, he'd be killed, the message said. Turns out the text came from a phone Aslam himself had bought at Target, according to police, who were in fact told of the text by Aslam's parents right after they received it on April 27, reports Johns Creek Patch. Aslam surfaced at his home eight days later, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. At first, he told police he'd been taken and drugged, but eventually he retracted the story, and the truth came out. He had actually camped in a tent in an undeveloped section of Forsyth County but returned when the weather got bad, police say. He turned himself in last week and now faces a slew of charges, including three felony counts each of false statements, tampering with evidence, and terroristic threats.