Brazilian Police Considering Charges Against Ryan Lochte And US Swimmers For Lying

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Ryan Lochte is in hot water for his lies regarding a robbery in Rio. Now Brazilian police are considering charging the group of U.S. Olympic swimmers with vandalism and giving false testimony. This is just terrible for the Olympic team and our reputation as a country.

Review journal:

“In theory, they could be held responsible – by they, I mean one or two or all four of them — with falsely reporting a crime and vandalism,” civil police chief Fernando Veloso told a news conference. He said neither offense was punishable by prison.

“There was no robbery as the swimmers described it.”

The Blaze:

A Brazilian police official is telling The Associated Press that American swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro.

The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about an ongoing probe.

He said that around 6 a.m. on Sunday, Lochte, along with fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen, stopped at a gas station in Barra da Tijuca, a suburb of Rio where many Olympic venues are located. One of the swimmers tried but failed to open the door of an outside bathroom.

A few of the swimmers then pushed on the door and broke it. A security guard appeared and confronted them, the official said.

The official says the guard was armed with a pistol, but he never took it out or pointed it at the swimmers.

According to the official, the gas station manager then arrived. Using a customer to translate, the manager asked the swimmers to pay for the broken door. After a discussion, they did pay him an unknown amount of money and then left.

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