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.
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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