Fla. man lends truck to stranger for beer run, claims carjacking when stranger doesn’t return

By AP
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Fla. man lends car to stranger, claims carjacking

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Lending one’s truck to a stranger to make a beer run is stupid. Compounding that by telling police you were carjacked is stupider. But Daytona Beach police said a 33-year-old man did both recently. He called police May 27 to say possibly armed men ordered him out of the truck while stopped at a light at 4 a.m.

Police reviewed video taken by a camera at the intersection and found nothing. When investigators confronted the alleged victim, he confessed he had lent the truck to a man he’d met while drinking at a motel. He said the man said he wanted to get more beer but never returned.

He told police he lied about the carjacking because he was embarrassed.

He was charged with making a false police report.

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