GASTONIA, N.C.,None — A Gastonia woman told police she lied about being robbed because she was in a hurry to get home, according to a warrant affidavit.
Gastonia police stopped 22-year-old Elizabeth Messer on Tuesday afternoon after they said she ran a stop sign at West Main Avenue and Trenton Street, Channel 9's newspaper partner, the Gaston Gazette, reported.
Messer told Officer M.R. Sherrill she had just been robbed at the intersection of Brown and May streets.
"After police looked for subject, the information defendant kept giving was changing and not consistent with what she told us earlier," Sherrill wrote in an affidavit. "After interviewing the defendant more she state she was lying because she was in a hurry to get home."
Messer was booked into Gaston County Jail under a $5,000 bond on charges of making a false report to police, resisting a police officer and running a stop sign.