Man charged with misleading police

February 05, 2012

Police have charged a 37-year-old man with misleading police officers after he made a hoax report of a robbery in Happy Valley on February 2.
 
At about 4.10pm on February 2, Police received a report that a man was found injured on Tung Lo Wan Road. When Police officers found him, he claimed to have been attacked and robbed of $2,000 by two men with a knife on Tin Hau Temple Road. A fruit knife with bloodstains was found nearby.
 
It was later learned that he had made a false report, and he was arrested for misleading police officers. He will appear in Eastern Magistrates' Courts on February 6.