Man Files Bogus Accident Report After Hit And Run, Lacey Police Chief Says

Lacey police didn't buy a Waretown man's story that his car was struck in the parking lot of Home Depot on Route 9 North by a car that fled the scene.

Officer Frederick Scott Anderson responded to police headquarters at 9:54 a.m. on May 11on a report of a hit and run. David Laveglio, 40, 2nd Street, told police that earlier that morning, between 8:15 a.m. and 8:40 a.m., he parked his vehicle in the Home Deport parking lot, Police Chief David A. Paprota said.

Laveglio said when he returned, he discovered his car has been hit. Anderson checked Laveglio’s vehicle and determined that the extent of the damage was not consistent with the story that Laveglio told, the chief said.

Further investigation revealed that Laveglio had been involved in and hit and run collision the evening before, when his car ran off the road, hit a speed limit sign on Manchester Avenue. He fled the scene, then failed to report the collision, Paprota said.

Significant pieces of his vehicle had been left at the scene which matched up with the gray, 2008, Chrysler 300 that Laveglio had driven to police headquarters. Formal charges are pending completion for the filing of the false police report and other related motor vehicle offenses, the chief said.