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Man fabricates kidnapping, cops say
He tried to hide truth of strip club
Thursday, July 14, 2005
By Chris Kirkham
St. Tammany bureau
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/sttammany/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1121317505110910.xml
The details in Douglas Kelly's elaborate story of robbery, kidnapping and assault just didn't add up.
He went to a local Exxon to buy dog food Wednesday about 1 a.m., he told Slidell police detectives, but Exxon doesn't sell dog food. The escape from the trunk of his 1994 Cadillac was aided by an emergency release lever that wasn't there.
And despite being hit in the back of the head, robbed and forced into a trunk, he somehow managed to have $400 in his wallet.
The only thing that was clear to detectives from Kelly's tangled tale was that much of it was made up, and after about an hour of questioning early Wednesday morning, they figured out why.
Fear was a motive, but not fear from the harrowing experience of being kidnapped. Instead, Slidell police said, Kelly was more afraid of his girlfriend back in Higden, Ark., learning that he had squandered away most of his money during a night of carousing at Scuttlebutt Gentlemen's Club.
Kelly, 39, an aviation mechanic from Higden working a contracting job at Slidell Airport, told Slidell Police Detective Reggie Relf that his fib about being kidnapped from the Exxon and robbed of $500 was "to insulate himself from the wrath of his pregnant girlfriend finding out he had been at Scuttlebutt's."
After stripping bare Kelly's erroneous story, police booked him with falsifying a police report, a charge that carries a $500 fine or up to six months in city jail, said Capt. Rob Callahan, a Slidell police spokesman. Kelly paid the fine and was released Wednesday morning, Callahan said.
The Police Department gets numerous false police report cases each year, but Wednesday's case was one of the more unique, Callahan said.
"He really truly feared the wrath of his pregnant girlfriend, to the point where he was willing to go to jail," Callahan said. "Plus, the wrath is still going to be there now."
One of the other details that tipped detectives off about Kelly's ruse was that he claimed to have been forced into the trunk and driven around Slidell for 45 minutes to two hours. Police didn't receive his call until 5:30 a.m., more than four hours after his supposed kidnapping.
He also told police he was hit in the back of the head while facing his attacker head on.
"The main problem (with a case like this) is that it takes detectives off the street and keeps them from doing what they were supposed to be doing," Callahan said. "Especially a kidnapping, which ties up a lot of people and a lot of resources."
The actual story of Kelly's night, later admitted to detectives, was that he met another man at the Motel 6 on Taos Street where he was staying and decided to go out to the club.
Kelly told police he got substantially drunk amid all the exotic dancing and that all he remembered was waking up in the passenger side of his car, with no keys, almost two miles away from his motel. Lost and missing much of the money he had earlier in the night, Kelly decided to craft his tale, Callahan said.
"It went downhill pretty fast for him," the officer said.
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He tried to hide truth of strip club
Thursday, July 14, 2005
By Chris Kirkham
St. Tammany bureau
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/sttammany/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1121317505110910.xml
The details in Douglas Kelly's elaborate story of robbery, kidnapping and assault just didn't add up.
He went to a local Exxon to buy dog food Wednesday about 1 a.m., he told Slidell police detectives, but Exxon doesn't sell dog food. The escape from the trunk of his 1994 Cadillac was aided by an emergency release lever that wasn't there.
And despite being hit in the back of the head, robbed and forced into a trunk, he somehow managed to have $400 in his wallet.
The only thing that was clear to detectives from Kelly's tangled tale was that much of it was made up, and after about an hour of questioning early Wednesday morning, they figured out why.
Fear was a motive, but not fear from the harrowing experience of being kidnapped. Instead, Slidell police said, Kelly was more afraid of his girlfriend back in Higden, Ark., learning that he had squandered away most of his money during a night of carousing at Scuttlebutt Gentlemen's Club.
Kelly, 39, an aviation mechanic from Higden working a contracting job at Slidell Airport, told Slidell Police Detective Reggie Relf that his fib about being kidnapped from the Exxon and robbed of $500 was "to insulate himself from the wrath of his pregnant girlfriend finding out he had been at Scuttlebutt's."
After stripping bare Kelly's erroneous story, police booked him with falsifying a police report, a charge that carries a $500 fine or up to six months in city jail, said Capt. Rob Callahan, a Slidell police spokesman. Kelly paid the fine and was released Wednesday morning, Callahan said.
The Police Department gets numerous false police report cases each year, but Wednesday's case was one of the more unique, Callahan said.
"He really truly feared the wrath of his pregnant girlfriend, to the point where he was willing to go to jail," Callahan said. "Plus, the wrath is still going to be there now."
One of the other details that tipped detectives off about Kelly's ruse was that he claimed to have been forced into the trunk and driven around Slidell for 45 minutes to two hours. Police didn't receive his call until 5:30 a.m., more than four hours after his supposed kidnapping.
He also told police he was hit in the back of the head while facing his attacker head on.
"The main problem (with a case like this) is that it takes detectives off the street and keeps them from doing what they were supposed to be doing," Callahan said. "Especially a kidnapping, which ties up a lot of people and a lot of resources."
The actual story of Kelly's night, later admitted to detectives, was that he met another man at the Motel 6 on Taos Street where he was staying and decided to go out to the club.
Kelly told police he got substantially drunk amid all the exotic dancing and that all he remembered was waking up in the passenger side of his car, with no keys, almost two miles away from his motel. Lost and missing much of the money he had earlier in the night, Kelly decided to craft his tale, Callahan said.
"It went downhill pretty fast for him," the officer said.
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