Detective said he told 'untruths' during bank robbery interrogation

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston police detective said Monday that he used a common bluffing tactic while interrogating a man suspected of robbing a Charleston Town Center bank in hopes of convincing the defendant that investigators had more evidence than they actually did.

Detective J.C. Webb said during an evidence suppression hearing Monday in the case of Billy Gene Reed and Anthony Williams -- who are accused of robbing the mall's United Bank branch at gunpoint -- that he told at least two "untruths" to Reed during the investigation.