The scene was strange from the start.
DeKalb County police got a call Friday about a stolen Honda Fit spotted at Serenade Apartments on Flat Shoals Parkway. While officers looked over it and other suspected stolen cars parked nearby, someone kept pressing the clicker: locked, unlocked, locked, unlocked.
Police say they confirmed two were stolen and they staked out a third to see who would drive it, according to an incident report.
They soon spotted Tristahn Ash, 20, get behind the wheel of the 2015 Infiniti QX80, valued at $42,111, the report said. Police pulled him over on Flat Shoals Parkway near Columbia Drive, but he allegedly ran, only to be caught a few hundred feet away.
That’s when he allegedly tried to bribe an officer to let him go.
“Officer, my money is long. I got 20 bands ($20,000),” the report quotes him saying. “If you help me, I can help you.”
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The cop thought he was joking until Ash asked to speak to a detective on scene. The cop listened as they spoke and then heard the detective exclaim:
“You trying to bribe me, oh no, buddy, that’s another charge.”
Warrants allege Ash offered the detective $10,000 to $15,000.
Police determined the Infiniti was stolen out of Clayton County and confiscated it, along with a handgun, 39 grams of marijuana and a scale.
Possessing the gun was a violation of Ash’s probation from a Fulton County case in which he received a stolen car, the report said.
In DeKalb he faces charges of bribery, theft by receiving, possessing a car with an altered VIN and more.
He remained in jail Tuesday.
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