Sorry for the late post on this but I was tired on Friday and really didn't get a chance to get some time on my computer until now so here is my stupid story of the day for Friday 9/6/2013.
Things were going good the shift started out ok and I had Circuit Court at 0900 in which the Commonwealth and defense made a deal on the case I was there for so I didn't have to spend too much time sitting around doing nothing.
Not much going on after that until I get dispatched to a hit and run call to the local mall parking lot. The notes in the call stated that the complainant's vehicle was struck by a Grey BMW 545 which left the scene and made the complainant's air bag deploy on his parked vehicle.
So I get there and find the complainant's vehicle and there is no one there so I just sit there for a minute and run the tag to get the owners information which comes back to a couple in the 60's. After about a minute the complainant comes running towards me and in a frantic state starts telling me that someone has hit his car and took off. I talk to him for a bit and he finally tells me that it is his girlfriends car (I already knew it wasn't his since he wasn't 60 years old). He told me that he parked it right where it is and started to walk into the mall to get his girlfriend who was getting done work and as he was walking he heard a "bang" and he turned around and saw the Beamer driving away very fast after smashing into the drivers side of the car. I asked him what the driver looked like and he really couldn't tell me so I said was he white or black and he said "mixed" I said "come again" and he said he was black and white so I said could he have been a light skinned black male and he said "yea". Ok now were getting somewhere. I checked the air bag and its still hot and I could smell the chemical odor so I figured he's telling the truth but I'm not 100 % sure it happened the way he said it did because the damage is not consistent with his story. The car is parked perfectly in the parking spot and would have moved significantly if it was struck as hard as it would have been to cause that much damage.
I start to look closer at the damage and I can see what I believe to be concrete dust on the fender as well as a big scuff on the tire. I cannot see any grey paint transfer on the car that would have been left by the striking vehicle. I then look at him and say something doesn't add up here, there is no paint transfer and it looks to me like you hit a concrete pole or something similar and as I said that I turned to my right and saw a light pole in the parking lot that had a concrete base so I go over to it and say "something like this" and point to it and as I am walking towards it I can see blue paint on the concrete light pole base (his car is blue by the way) and a big rubber mark along with several scrapes that are pretty consistent with the marks on his car. I turned to him and looked him straight in the eyes and say "do you think that if I measure those scuff marks on your car that they will match perfectly to the ones on that pole" he says "I didn't hit that pole some BMW hit my car" so I said "I'm not doing any hit and run report, you better man the fuck up and own this because if you don't I'm going to lock you up for filing a false police report". At this point he lowered his head, pulled out his phone and called a friend and said that he needed a tow truck. I bid him a good day and rolled out.
Moral of the story.....if your going to try and scam the police on a phony hit and run, don't park your car right next to the pole you hit.
10-7 EOT
