South Carolina Firefighter Charged with Making Up Carjacking (w/Videos)

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina firefighter who told authorities he was carjacked at knifepoint has been charged with making the whole thing up.

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Arrest warrants show 32-year-old Michael Thomas Polston Jr. was arrested Friday and charged with filing a false police report.

Polston is a firefighter in Taylors. He told deputies a man with a knife got in his car on Tuesday and ordered him to withdraw money from a bank.

Polston identified a man as his abductor from a photo lineup, but that man was never charged.

It was not immediately clear if Polston had an attorney. Local media reported he was held Friday on $5,000 bond, but he was not listed in jail records on Saturday.

There was no phone number listed for Polston.

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Permalink Reply by Mick Shelley on April 14, 2009 at 12:50pm

I live near by, and when I heard this on the news, I could not understand why he would have done such a thing,
or what his motive was. I feel sorry for him, but I feel more sorry for the department he worked for, they are the one's that will to deal with all the Bull S**t that came out of this. Just goes to show you that crime don't pay.