Douglas Walker

dwalker@muncie.gannett.com

MUNCIE – City police said a Muncie man who was the target of a Madison County arrest warrant tried to persuade them that he was his cousin.

Thomas Wayne “Tommy G” Gregory, 41, of the 900 block of West Seventh Street, was a passenger in a car driven by a man who was arrested for driving while suspended late Tuesday

A city officer wrote that Gregory gave him a false name and conflicting information about his age, saying his “math was off.”

When the officer came to believe he knew the suspect’s real name, he stood behind the Muncie man and said, “Hey, Tommy!”

According to the officer, Gregory turned his head and answered, “Yeah?”

Gregory was being held without bond in the Delaware County jail on Wednesday, preliminarily charged with identity deception.

He was charged last Friday with failure to return to lawful detention in Madison Circuit Court.

The Muncie man has been convicted of theft in Delaware, Grant and Madison counties.