A man crashes his girlfriend’s car. Why could she be facing charges?

A Bluffton woman could faces charges of filing a false police report for claiming her car was stolen — ten minutes after her boyfriend crashed the vehicle.

The woman called police from her home Saturday afternoon, claiming her Chevrolet Equinox was stolen from the parking lot of a gas station on U.S. 278 in Okatie, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office report released Monday.

While at the gas station, the woman told police she ran into an old friend, according to the report.

The two were chatting, and when they finished “two unknown people got into the Equinox and sped out of the lot,” the woman told police.

She told police her grandmother picked her up from the gas station and took her home after the car was stolen.

As deputies began investing the woman’s claims, the story quickly fell apart.

When asked if they could contact the friend she saw at the gas station, the woman claimed she didn’t know the friend’s phone number and couldn’t look it up because her cell phone was in the stolen vehicle.

The deputy on scene asked the woman for her phone number so police could try calling it in hopes of locating the phone and the car, the report said.

The number the woman provided was the same number she used to call the police — after the car and the phone were allegedly stolen.

Confronted with this contradiction, the woman “was visibly getting frustrated ... (and) was using more hand gestures and rolling her eyes,” the report said.

Deputies left the woman’s home and went to the gas station to review surveillance footage. No vehicle matching the description of the Equinox was seen, according to the report.

Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office deputies were then contacted by S.C. Highway Patrol troopers who discovered the woman’s car crashed at Freedom Plaza in Jasper County.

A man, later identified as the boyfriend of the Equinox’s owner, was driving the vehicle.

The woman called police “to report the vehicle stolen because ... (her boyfriend) was driving on a suspended license,” the report said.

Deputies plan to meet with a “Bluffton Magistrate Judge in order to discuss for the probable cause for a warrant for filing a false police report,” according to the report.

This story was originally published July 11, 2016 at 5:08 PM with the headline "A man crashes his girlfriend’s car. Why could she be facing charges?."