Fake name worked once before, but it didn’t work this time

In the course of investigating a case of intimidation and battery, an officer talked to a man who had warrants out for his arrest and didn’t want to go to jail, so he gave the officer a fake name. He said it had worked before, but it didn’t work this time and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Victor Giyer, 19, Bloomington, is wanted on a warrant issued on a preliminary charge of synthetic identity deception, a Level 6 felony.   

On April 24, Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy David Elmore was assisting GCSD Deputy Alan Jackson in an investigation into a domestic incident involving Brandi Tatum and another woman when Deputy Elmore went to Greene County Chapel to locate Tatum. She wasn’t there and he left.

A short time later, dispatch again advised Tatum and her boyfriend were at Greene County Chapel and that her boyfriend had attempted to stab himself in the neck, so Deputy Elmore returned.

Once he arrived, he found them. He knew Tatum from a prior experience but did not know her boyfriend and he conducted a safety pat down, taking three knives off the man.

Deputy Elmore asked him about an attempt to harm himself and reported the man said he was just doing what Tatum told him to do. Elmore did not see any marks on the man’s neck and the man said he was not suicidal and did not want to harm himself.

The man, later identified as Giyer, said he was Justin Wilson. He provided a birthdate but said he had never had a driver’s license and never been in trouble.

With assistance from dispatch, Elmore was able to determine the man’s name was Victor Giyer and he was wanted on warrants issued out of Monroe County.

When Elmore called him by his real name, Giyer allegedly said, “Who told you?” He also said he lied because he didn’t want to go to jail, that he didn’t know anyone by the name of Justin Wilson but it worked the last time he had contact with law enforcement.

On Thursday, May 2, a criminal case was filed against Giyer on a preliminary charge of synthetic identity deception, a Level 6 felony, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.