SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (WOAI) -- A San Antonio woman is facing charges after police say she faked her own kidnapping to get a day off from work.
An
officer on patrol went to check out a car parked near Ray Ellison and
Five Palms around 6:30 p.m. on October 10th. When the officer looked
inside the car, he spotted 48-year-old Sheila Bailey Eubank bound with
rope.
An arrest warrant affidavit states Eubank told police a man
jumped into her car around 6:15 a.m. while she was at a Security
Service Federal Credit Union ATM near Loop 1604 and Bandera Road. Eubank
said the man held her an knife point and forced her to drive him to
various locations for what she believed were drug deals. She told
officers he then assaulted her, tried to choke her with a rope, and then
tied her up and left her in her car.
However, officers
discovered a lottery ticket in Eubank's purse that was purchased that
day during the hours she claimed she was being held. Investigators
reviewed surveillance video from the store where the lottery ticket was
purchased and found out she had entered the store by herself and
appeared "healthy, unhurried, and pleasant with the clerk."
Investigators
then reviewed video from the Security Service Federal Credit Union
where Eubank claimed she was abducted. The video showed withdrawing
money from the motor ATM, but there were no signs that anyone else was
with her.
Police say when Eubank was confronted by investigators,
she eventually admitted her story was false and that she simply wanted a
day off from work and wanted attention.
Eubank now faces an Aggravated Perjury charge.
