Two men wanted for their role in an extortion plot that cost the city $10,000 surrendered to police Thursday, but another suspect and the cash were still missing.

Anthony "Tooth" Hines, 25, of Homewood, was jailed on charges of theft by deception, theft by extortion, receiving stolen property and conspiracy in the Sunday hoax, in which police said a man faked his own kidnapping because he needed money.

That man, Dominic "Big Boy" Fields, 23, also surrendered later Thursday evening, and was being questioned by police Thursday night. Mr. Fields was expected to be arraigned on the same charges early this morning.

Police are also searching for at least one other suspect, whom they were still trying to identify.

Police said Mr. Fields maintains his innocence and claims he was a victim of kidnapping.

The case began unfolding Sunday morning, when Mr. Fields' father, David Fields, came to police headquarters and told officers a man had called his cell phone, saying, "We have your son and want $50,000 dropped in Highland Park by the pool or we will kill him," according to a criminal complaint. Police sought FBI assistance and assembled a SWAT team, believing the son had been kidnapped.

A relative told Mr. Fields he saw his son leaving the Trappers Club in East Liberty early that morning with "some guys from Penn Hills ??? 'Tooth' and 'Tone,'???" who drives a dark green Ford Expedition, the complaint said.

While speaking with police, Mr. Fields received another call from the suspects, whose ransom demands grew increasingly desperate.

"Mr. Fields was instructed to tell the caller he didn't feel safe dropping the money at the pool in Highland Park, and he would feel better if they let him hear from his son," which the caller refused, the complaint said. The caller phoned again 15 minutes later, and put Dominic Fields on the phone.

They called several more times between 12:08 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., demanding he drop the money and reiterating that "if you don't do what I said your son is dead," the complaint said.

From 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., the callers and Mr. Fields discussed where to do the drop. They ordered him to drop the money bag at Dorsey's Record Shop in the 7100 block of Frankstown Avenue, to come alone and to park behind a white Cadillac. Mr. Fields was to arrive in 20 minutes and put the bag in the doorway. He would receive a call once the suspects had counted the cash.

The city police department used its money for the drop off. Inside the bag with the money was a tracking device, approved through a court order, that police hoped would lead them to Dominic Fields and his captors. Detectives also used court-approved wiretapping, pen register and trap devices in their investigation. Police could hear Mr. Fields' phone conversations, they said.

Two detectives keeping surveillance saw several men get into a dark green Ford Expedition parked behind an apartment in the 7600 block of Kelly Street, the complaint said.

At 6:40 p.m., David Fields drove to the record store and placed the bag in the door. Detectives monitoring the tracking device traced it to the 7600 block of Kelly Street, inside Mr. Hines' apartment, police said.

But by the time a SWAT team assembled there, the suspects and the money were gone. So was the tracking device, which apparently stopped working.

When the suspects realized they had received only a portion of their ransom, they called Mr. Fields, wondering about the "black thing" included in the bag. He told them he didn't know what it was; it was his son's computer bag. It was the final call the distraught father received from the captors. At 11 p.m., he got a call from his son.

"Mr. Fields asked his son if he was all right and if he was kidnapped," the complaint said. "Dominic told him that he wasn't, and he needed money."

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