A man wound up in jail after intentionally reporting that his car had been stolen at knifepoint in Spanaway when his only real problem was that he couldn’t find it in a parking lot.
The Pierce County Sheriff Department gave this account of the incident:
Just after 8 p.m. on Nov. 12, a 9-1-1 dispatcher received a phone call from a man who claimed he was being carjacked by someone armed with a knife in the parking lot of the Walmart store on Mountain Highway.
When deputies arrived at the scene, the “victim" told them he was "really sorry" that he called and wasted their time because his car was actually just lost. A deputy handcuffed him, put him in the back seat of a patrol car and drove him around the parking lot until they located his blue Dodge Charger right where he had left it. From there, the 46-year-old man was booked into Pierce County Jail for filing a false report.
He told the deputies he always thinks his car is stolen and that he knew they would get there faster to help him look for it if he said he was being robbed at knifepoint. He also said he give a description of the “carjacker” to make his call for help more convincing.
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