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A man has been charged with filing a false police report, after telling police he had been carjacked at gunpoint in Providence.

As GoLocal reported, early Thursday morning, a man purporting to be a victim of a carjacking called police from the Elmhurst section of the city to report a crime.

After the vehicle was found later that day in Pawtucket, police say the man - Terrence Lafauret, age 24 - provided conflicting stories of what had transpired and was charged by police with filing a false police report.

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“Soon after he made the report, we looked at it and found that it seemed suspicious the way he described it to us,” said Providence Police Major David Lapatin. “The police had spent the entire today going over video and talking with witnesses and neighbors.”

Lapatin said that when the vehicle was eventually located, Lafauret went to Central Station to leave a statement.

“There were holes in his report,’ said Lapatin. “He then admitted he did not tell the truth and made it up. He was charged with filing a false police report.”

Lapatin said that police take the filing of false police reports seriously.

“This report and investigation involved police resources that could been used elsewhere,” said Lapatin.

How Events Unfolded

When Lafauret first reported a “carjacking” to police shortly after midnight on Thursday morning, he said he had been “driving towards Regent Avenue” when he...

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