Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog

Criminal Law

: Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog

Man Lies About Robbery Out of Fear of Wife

By Baker Associates

A Panama City man recently took desperate measures to avoid the wrath of his wife, telling the police that he had been robbed in order to avoid having to tell her he had spent too much money. The man apparently called police and reported that he had just been attacked outside a store by a person dressed in black who made off with one hundred dollars of the man?s money (at least his story wasn?t generic). Unfortunately for the man, the surveillance tapes from the store at which he had just finished shopping showed him leaving the store and sitting in his car for a little while before coming back into the store to make the phone call, proving that he had not actually been robbed. The man admitted to police that he had concocted the story in order to avoid having to tell his wife that he had actually spent the money...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).