He said it was a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. “I honestly didn’t know what the officer was talking about until I got my papers and saw (Izard’s) name on there,” Washburn said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong.”

In Washburn’s account of what happened that morning, he said he never touched or saw the gas card. Izard had gotten the gas card from a man Washburn said he never saw. Izard told Washburn that the man said he could use the gas card to fill up his car, as long as Washburn paid the man half of the total price used in cash. At the time, he had $40 and a credit card in his pocket.

“Mike said he had a friend in the house who had a gas card,” said Washburn. “He was out of cash money, and he asked if could give him half of whatever my car used.”

Washburn said it was a good deal, so he agreed. Washburn said he drove Izard to the gas station and bought a Gatorade and pork skins before going back outside to wait at the gas pump as Izard paid. The minivan cost $56 and change to fill up, Washburn said.