Posted on 09/17/2019 5:10:28 AM PDT by simpson96
An ex-NFL player allegedly vandalized his own restaurant to make it look like a hate crime and burglary so he could collect insurance money, CNN reports.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Edawn Louis Coughman with insurance fraud, false report of a crime and concealing a license plate.
The 31-year-old former tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is accused of using a crowbar to stage the break-in at his Atlanta-area eatery. He also wrote “racially motivated words,” swastikas and “MAGA” in the building, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department.
Police went to Create & Bake Pizza and Coughman’s Creamery in response to a complaint that someone was damaging it. The caller said the suspect was driving a black vehicle without a license plate.
Officers stopped the driver of a vehicle matching that description, and that person was Coughman. Officers saw “several televisions in the bed of the truck and inside the cab,” some of which were “still attached to the brackets with damaged drywall,” the police department said in a news release.
Authorities also found a crowbar, spray paint and missing appliances in the truck.
Coughman was released Thursday on bond. He told police that he had become aware of the damage earlier in the day and notified his insurance company, but he had not called 911.
Jackie Patterson, Coughman’s attorney, said the public should not judge without “knowing all the facts.”
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Bad food? Jussie Smellitt copycat?
These people crack me up.
They are so desperate.
Where do these idiots get the idea to drive cars around without tags? It’s like a magnet for cops.
So the police can’t run the tags of course, lol.
They’re not very good at thinking through the logical consequences of their actions, though.
Another Obama draft pick.
Unless it has anything to do with Justice Kavanugh.
This is probably the grossest story I’ve heard in awhile. I just got back from a day up at 10,000 ft with a magnificent view and super clean pine scented air. Note to self: Just think of the high Sierras.
Then, another one pops up to prove us wrong.
Then you must have missed the story about Antonio Brown farting in his doctor’s face during an examination and laughing about it. This was back in PA when he was a Steeler. Now the doctor is going after Brown for a past due $11,000+ medical bill. And then there’s a woman artist who Brown hired to pain a portrait of him on a wall in his home. She said she was on her knees painting when Brown snuck up on her “buck” naked holding a hand towel over his “genitals”. You better go back to the high Sierras.
Bkmrk
Tried and failed to spell “Edwin” would be my best guess, nothing creative about it. Just ignorance.
There’s a Mexican grocery around here that has repeatedly been the “victim” of “racist” graffiti attacks. Suspicion is that the same thing is happening there. The owners get race-tinged sympathy and free press every time it happens.
I personally do not know ANY white people who would do such a thing.
What an idiot. I don’t understand his thinking on the insurance angle. Sure, they pay out for damages, but I suspect it’s similar to any other kind of insurance, they pay out based on the depreciated value of the items. His business wasn’t doing so well, so he probably owes on business loans?
“Don’t judge without knowing all the facts.” Oh isn’t that cute
Would spraying “whitey” and “honky” on the walls have got the same attention?
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