An Arkansas man told police that he had been kidnapped Tuesday night and forced to drive to Memphis but later confessed to making the story up to deceive his wife, authorities said.
According to a report from the Jonesboro Police Department, a 26-year-old Harrisburg woman reported Wednesday that her husband had been hospitalized after being abducted.
An officer called a Memphis hospital and spoke to the man, who told him he was at stopped a Jonesboro gas station on Nettleton Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a gunman entered the passenger seat of his Lincoln MKX and made him to drive to the Tennessee city. He said the individual forced him out of the SUV when they arrived, the report states, and he was eventually taken to a hospital about 6 a.m. Wednesday.
The officer noted the husband was "very deceptive" when asked to account for the missing 10 hours.
Several hours after that interview, the man called police and told them his vehicle hadn't been stolen in Jonesboro but was actually taken while he was in Memphis. According to the report, he didn't want his wife to know he went to Memphis to try to "sell his pants at a resale store."
Officers listed the case as unfounded, and the stolen vehicle report was given to the Memphis Police Department.