Los Angeles (CNN) -- A police officer in Los Angeles who claimed
he was shot while patrolling near a high school has now been arrested
for making up the story, authorities said.
Officer Jeff Stenroos of the Los Angeles Unified School District Police
Department had said he was shot in the chest on January 19 in the west
San Fernando Valley. He said the shooting happened when he got out of
his squad car to check on a man peering into parked vehicles near the
El Camino High School.
The alleged shooting prompted an hours-long lockdown of several schools as police scoured the area looking for the shooter.
In the following days, authorities released a sketch of the alleged gunman, and the reward for information grew to $100,000.
But Thursday night, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Stenroos
had been arrested on a felony count of filing a false police report.
"The current state of the investigation refutes Stenroos' initial
account of the incident and we are now certain that there is no
outstanding suspect in this shooting," he said in a statement.
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