A man who called police and reported his mother’s car stolen Monday ended up being booked into the Montgomery County Jail for making the story up, according to a Dayton Police incident report.

Terrance Jones called officers to say that his mother’s gold Cadillac DeVille had been stolen while he was washing it in the driveway.

According to the report, officers knew that a gold Cadillac with the same license plate number had been reported abandoned in an alley earlier in the evening on Rustic Road. There was also a report of a Gold Cadillac involved in a hit and run at Salem and Emerson avenues.

Police asked Jones if maybe he panicked after the crash and ditched the car in the alley, which he denied.

Several people eventually identified Jones as the driver during the hit and run and as the man who abandoned the car in the alley.

He was arrested pending misdemeanor charges of falsification and obstructing official business. Jones, 27, also had several warrants out of Dayton for a speed violations and operating a vehicle intoxicated.