Cherokee County Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a Canton ice cream truck driver on charges of falsely reporting a crime. Joseph Heath Wade, 30, said that four men held him up at gunpoint Monday as he sat in his truck in a church parking lot off Reinhardt College Parkway, making off with as much as $600 in ice cream sales proceeds.
Deputies checking with his employer found that a significant amount of ice cream was missing from his truck and that Wade had been fired. They say Wade admitted to detectives Thursday that he’d made up the robbery story and claimed the money was used to pay another person’s drug debt.
He remained in the Cherokee Adult Detention Center on Friday.
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