Florida man fakes suicide to avoid jail

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Fort Myers, Florida -- A Cape Coral man wanted on a warrant for a felony arrest turned himself in Tuesday morning after attempting to fake his own death to avoid jail time.

Shelly Flynn, spokeswoman for Fort Myers police, said Christopher Rehbein, 22, turned himself in to his bail bondsmen around 8:40 a.m. and was on his way to the Lee County Jail.

Police say Rehbein had his girlfriend, Sarah Adkins, 20, call and report that he had jumped off the Caloosahatchee bridge just before 1 a.m. Adkins told police that she was driving her boyfriend to the bondsman so he could turn himself in on a warrant, according to the arrest report.

Adkins told officers that she was driving her boyfriend to the bondman's office when he screamed for her to stop the car because he saw something in the road. That's when she said he jumped off the bridge. ...more...

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Finally the mystery of Billy Joe MacAllister is solved. 

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Finally the mystery of Billy Joe MacAllister is solved. 

Wrong bridge 

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door, "Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
Then she said, "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge"

Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense, pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billie Joe McAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge

Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge"

Mama said to me, "Child what's happened to your appetite?
I been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher Brother Taylor dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchee Bridge"

A year has come and gone since I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus goin' round, papa caught it and he died last spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me I spend a lot of time picking flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchee Bridge