MD MOMMY
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First, in the scenario I envision, Joran may not even have attempted to "extort" any money from anyone. I don't think we know all the facts here; the FBI can't even get it straight about whether they provided the funds or Beth did. Regardless, it would be my contention that Joran, who admittedly is addicted to both gambling and doing almost anything for money, came into a large sum of money in some way, through this sting (however it worked).
I surmise the the intention was not to arrest him for "extortion" (or he would have been arrested on May 10, as any other victim of a sting would normally have been), but to lure him to Peru for whatever was initially planned for him there. I now strongly suspect that whatever that original plan was, it didn't include the murder of Stephany. I'm not sure exactly what happened to abort the original plan (as I theorized in another post, it could very possibly have been that Stephany was supposed to be involved in some way, and ended up backing out and alerting Joran).
Obviously, I don't know exactly what happened, and neither does anyone else on this forum. I'm only speculating- in a wild way, I admit. I interpret the video, and all the leaks and statements from Peruvian authorities far differently than everyone else here, I guess. We'll just have to await further developments in this story.
Thinking out loud here but say they did "lure" him to Peru, don't you think they would have kept WAY better tabs on his actions? Don't you think they would have had the hotel under surveillance..hidden cameras in the hotel room etc? He was in that hotel for a LONG time. It's not as though he was jumping around Peru.