Fwiw, this thread would appear to be about a boot camp director/owner (not a transporter/escort), who's facility is located in California. Maybe those errors were typos.
He appeared to be acting in the capacity (at the time of the crime) as an escort. Is this not true. Will the charges reflect this. Please not trying to play semantics here, just trying to understand your opinion.
From what I can tell, he was posing as a
truancy officer (not even as an escort). From what I can tell, there was absolutely no teen escort or transport service involved nor insinuated to be involved. Perhaps there is more info that I haven't come across yet.
Nonetheless, it is immaterial as to what he was posing as when it comes to describing
who or what McFarland actually is, which the thread title avers or infers, and yet, which is amply described as
otherwise in both the article in the OP as well as the one immediately following it. See articles:
Having the thread title describe Kelvin McFarland as a teen transporter or escort is misleading, and is causing folk to be confused as to the actual facts in this case. I do wish the thread title would be changed.
From reading the few articles available (most are just rehashes of the same info), my guess is that this saga is about a boot camp operator who tried to rev up a lil more binnis for himself, whether it was for ideological reasons and/or greed is unclear. He put on a uniform and/or badge and posed as a truancy officer or, at the least, as someone who was in a position of authority to detain truant teenagers. He found a truant teenager, or who he
thought was a truant teenager, and brought the kid home to his family. He probably cooked up some scenario where the parent was told that "charges" or other legal troubles would be dropped/go away if the kid were enrolled in some kind of "alternative program" like this fine local
Family 1st Growth Camp program. He took a $100 deposit as confirmation that the kid would be or was actually enrolled.
I should stress that the immediately preceding paragraph consists of
my personal opinion and good faith speculation as to what actually transpired, and should not be confused or interpreted to be equivalent to hard facts. At this point in time, hard facts are not available to the general public.
Nevertheless, news reports currently in circulation indicate that McFarland is being charged with false imprisonment, extortion, child abuse, unlawful use of a badge and kidnapping a 14-year-old minor. His hearing is on the 13th; I'm sure more info will be available then.