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Police say taxi driver used gas card he said had been stolen in armed robbery.
Clovis cab driver Scott Roberts, 30, was arrested for using a prepaid fuel card he told police had been stolen from him during an armed robbery last week, the Clovis News Journal reported. Roberts was charged last Friday with filing a false police report, embezzlement and two felony counts of unauthorized withdrawals from a bank account, the News Journal said. He was released on a $11,500 bond the same day, jail officials told the News Journal. Roberts had told police a pedestrian flagged him down around midnight April 16 and robbed him at gunpoint, getting away with a deposit bag containing cash and the prepaid gas card, the paper reported. The cabbie admitted using the gas card but insists he was robbed, saying he at first though the card was in the deposit bag but later discovered it in the ashtray of the car, the News Journal said. "I was robbed for sure," Roberts said. "I feel like I'm getting robbed (again) -- things got turned around." Clovis Police detective Charlie Aguirre said the robbery is still being investigated, the News Journal said.
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