Former NFL player charged with staging fake hate crime

Former NFL player charged with staging fake hate crime
Former NFL player Edawn Coughman (Photo: Gwinnett County [Georgia] Jail)
Police in suburban Atlanta charged a former NFL player and business owner with staging a fake racially-motivated burglary of his business in order to collect insurance.

Law enforcement officials in Gwinnett County, Georgia, arrested Edawn Louis Coughman, 31, on charges of false reporting of a crime, insurance fraud and concealing a license plate, CNN reports.


Authorities said a witness noticed an unidentified man who was tearing up Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman’s Creamery on Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville. He said there was also a black pickup truck parked outside with no license plate on it.

Officers were already in the area and responded quickly to pull over the black truck trying to leave the area without a license plate that matched the description. Coughman was driving.


Coughman said he was the owner off the business.

Officers noted in the police report that “several televisions in the bed of the truck and inside the cab,” that “still attached to the brackets with damaged drywall,” police said.

Police also noted the paint was fresh and they also noticed black spray paint on Coughman’s hands.

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