An 18-year-old accused of trying to rob a suburban Dallas police headquarters is now claiming he was joking when he allegedly told a dispatcher he had a gun.
“I didn’t say nothing like that, I swear to God I didn’t say nothing like that; that’s why they didn’t find no guns on me,” Keithan Manuel said in a jailhouse phone interview. “Man I play like that all the time, I didn’t think she would take it seriously.” But police say they had no choice but to take Manuel’s alleged threat seriously.
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He reportedly walked into the Wilmer Police Department on Saturday, wearing a white towel over his hands and told the dispatcher at the lobby window to hand over all the station’s money. “He said he’d like to check on a warrant, but it was pretty obvious it was a situation … he gave a different name and after a few moments of maybe playing it off he said ‘you do know I have a gun’.
“At that point he seemed to be very serious,” Police Chief Victor Kemp said. Manuel faces several charges, including robbery, and remains in the Dallas County Jail on a $200,000 bond. “This young man wasn’t using his head for sure,” Kemp said. “You hear of those world’s dumbest criminals every once in a while but you never think it’s gonna happen in your city.”
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