A Tiffin man is accused of faking his own kidnapping after he allegedly sent his mother a photo of himself bound in a ditch and texted a friend that he had an hour to live.

A Johnson County Sheriff's deputy arrested Frank Arnold Tanke, 26, on Saturday on a charge of faking reports to a public safety entity.

He told investigators he was "abducted by two men dressed in black, wearing ski masks, and carrying handguns," reads the complaint. Then, he said he was "knocked out, gagged, tied up and thrown into a vehicle."

Kunkel said the investigators found each of his claims to be false and he later admitted the report wasn't true.