Fake Reports Surface As Georgia Clown Craze Continues

Reports of creepy-acting clowns continued to surface in Georgia on Thursday. But at least some of those reports were being exposed as fakes.

In Macon, a man was shot in the leg around 5:50 a.m. on Thursday. In his report to police, he claimed to have been shot by a carload of clowns who jumped out of their vehicle and opened fire.

Upon further questioning, however, Bibb County Sheriff's Office deputies say Marvin Leon Cooper III, 24, admitted that he had lied.

Sheriff's office Maj. Eric Walker said that, instead, Cooper admitted the man who shot him had approached him trying to buy drugs.

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Earlier in LaGrange, a man and his sister-in-law were arrested Wednesday for falsely reporting a white van full of suspicious clowns to the sheriff's office.

Deputies who responded to the call found a man who said his van had run out of gas. He gave deputies permission to search the van, and no clown-related gear was found.

When the deputies interviewed the 911 caller, Brandon Jerome Moody, 26, of LaGrange, he allegedly claimed he'd actually seen the clowns a day earlier and thought it was the same van. He admitted lying about seeing clowns when he called 911, the Troup County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Moody's sister-in-law, Rebecca Moody, 27, also had called 911 reporting that she saw clowns.

Both were charged with obstruction and unlawful conduct during a 911 call.

The phony reports being exposed are the latest bizarre twist in an already strange wave of reports of suspicious clowns in Georgia.

Similar reports flourished in the past couple of weeks in North and South Carolina before they began popping up in Georgia late last week. Similarly, several of the reports in the Carolinas have since been exposed as fakes.

Macon authorities were still investigating a report that people dressed as clowns and carrying fake weapons threatened children at a school bus stop Tuesday.

A similar report from Athens, which allegedly happened earlier this week, surfaced Wednesday.

And suspicious clowns have been reportedly sighted in Dublin, though police there say they haven't been able to substantiate any of the claims.

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