A Smyrna woman went too far when she lied about an accident with a Cobb County police car.
Alexus Sapp, 20, and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Ernst Simon, were arrested Thursday, after police said they falsely reported a police car took off after an accident the night before.
Police said Sapp actually hit Simon’s car when he stopped on South Cobb Drive for a passing emergency vehicle. Simon left the scene of the accident and Sapp called 911, police said.
Simon showed up shortly after police arrived and said he witnessed a black Cobb County Crown Victoria hit his girlfriend’s car. Then, more family members started arriving.
Yasmin Ali, Sapp’s mother, showed up and began yelling at her daughter in front of officers.
“A (expletive deleted) police car hit you?” Ali asked her daughter, according to the report.
When she wouldn’t settle down or listen to officers’ verbal commands, Ali was handcuffed and arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
Sapp threatened to figure out which officer hit her and sue the police department.
When an officer later went to Sapp’s house, he found Simon’s car in the driveway, with rear-end damage. A sergeant went looking through police video to figure out what patrol car might have been involved.
Reviewing the dash camera video showed no contact occurred between Sapp’s car and any police vehicle.
“We could clearly see our initial caller following her boyfriend in the video,” an officer wrote in the report. “We could also see the boyfriend yield to the police car and her vehicle approach his.”
It turns out, she hit her boyfriend’s car, police said.
“Since both of these subjects lied to us on the scene and obstructed the investigation, we charged Sapp with false report and following too close,” Smyrna police said in the report.
Simon was charged with obstruction, hit and run and having a brake light out. Once police got warrants, officers arrested both Sapp and Simon at Sapp’s home.
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