Typical bread and butter police work frame up
Never talk to a cop
Hahaha....you are confusing FBI agents with police officers.
Npt even close to the same thing....you cannot get arrested for lying to a police officer.
That's essentially the advice I received from a family friend who was a sheriff's deputy. As he put it (if memory serves): "It's NOT a law enforcement officer's job to offer legal advice. If you talk to him, and mention that you've done something illegal, even if you didn't KNOW it was illegal, it IS his job to arrest you."
I've repeated that advice to friends & family for years. Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - listens, even though the source was a cop...