If You're Going to Fake a Car Theft, Make Sure You Don't Have LoJack

Behind on your car payments? Don't want it to be repossessed? Well, that's the situation Sandy Mathews of Oceanside, California, found herself in. So she did what we all would do --- faked the theft of her 1999 GMC Yukon. She forgot about it being equipped with LoJack, though.

She first put license plates from her boyfriend's 2006 Buick on it, then hid it in a friend's backyard in Escondido, and finally reported it stolen to both police and insurance. Police took the report, activated the LoJack, and promptly found the vehicle.

Mathews' friend said she didn't know it was stolen and that Mathews had stored it there. This obviously was a red flag to the police.

Mathews has been arrested on suspicion of falsely reporting a crime to a peace officer and filing a false report of a vehicle theft with the intent to deceive.