Evesham Township Police charged a man Wednesday with allegedly filing a false report about an armed robbery this past July.
Wonye McFarland of Marlton, Camden County, is charged with two counts of false reporting to police, and implicating another in a first- or second-degree crime.
McFarland allegedly called police one early morning in mid-July, and said he had been robbed by two males armed with a knife.
He allegedly told police $3,000 in cash and a $5,000 Rolex watch were taken from him, but investigations since July turned up inconsistent accounts of the robbery, police said, and eventually Evesham detectives determined the incident never even occurred.
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McFarland turned himself into Evesham Police on Tuesday and is currently lodged at the Burlington County Jail.
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