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SC firefighter charged with making up carjacking
Posted: 03.29.2009 at 3:24 PM
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GREENVILLE, SC (AP) -- A South Carolina firefighter who told authorities he was carjacked at knifepoint has been charged with making the whole thing up.

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.

(Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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