THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, July 23, 1994 TAG: 9407230231
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
A Chesapeake man who claimed that his automobile was carjacked by a gunman Tuesday night has been charged with filing a false police report after police were told he traded the car for drugs.
Warrants were taken out for William Johnathan, 33, of the 3100 block of Misty Hollow Court in Chesapeake Thursday night, said G.A. Brown, spokesman for the Portsmouth Police Department.
Johnathan, who told police he works as a private investigator for a lawyer, told police on Tuesday that a lone gunman approached him at a public telephone in the 3700 block of Victory Boulevard at about 10 p.m.
The gunman, Johnathan told police, pointed a handgun at him, got into the driver's seat and drove away in his 1989 red Mazda.
Norfolk police stopped a Mazda that matched the description of Johnathan's car Thursday afternoon on Military Highway. After interviewing the five men in the car, Brown said, police determined that Johnathan had traded his car for drugs. The men in the car were not charged. by CNB