Crime & Safety
Man Fabricated Attack Story to Get Ride Home, Police Say
Farmington Hills police say a story a Detroit man told about being attacked and robbed by four men didn't add up.
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – Darius Michael Lee, 21, of Detroit, allegedly told Farmington Hills police a suspicious story of woe:
Four men dressed in gray jumped him near the U.S. Post Office on 12 Mile Road as he was headed to a bus stop after finishing a shift at a restaurant, then robbed him of his cell phone and other items. Lee called police to tell them what happened from a gas station at 12 Mile and Orchard Lake roads shortly before midnight on March 1.
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The story started unraveling, though, and police told The Farmington Observer they believe Lee was just trying to get police to give him a ride home. When they searched him, they found 25 cents, a debit card and an iPad.
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Lee was arrested on a felony charge of making a false report to police and taken to the Oakland County Jail. A preliminary hearing was to have been held in District Court Wednesday.
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