Police: Edgewater man stabbed self to avoid work

Kim Posey KDVR Denver

9:29 PM MST, November 3, 2009

Police: Edgewater man stabbed self to avoid work

EDGEWATER, Colo. - Some might call in sick. Others might claim their car
broke down. But a Denver man is facing charges for allegedly

**stabbing himself because he didn't want to go to work.**

Officers were called to the scene Monday night after 27-year-old Aaron
Siebers showed up to work at a Sheridan Blockbuster video store with a
stab wound to his leg and cuts on his face and stomach. He told
investigators that three men dressed in black tried to rob him, then
attacked him.

"We had 5 police departments and a sheriff's office out there with K-9
units, officers searching alleys, rooftops, going neighborhood by
neighborhood looking for assault suspects," said Steve Davis the
Edgewater Public Information Officer.

But Davis says Sieber's story quickly fell apart.

Officers say they couldn't find any evidence of an attack, and when they
checked surveillance tape they didn't see an attack.

When confronted with that information Siebers allegedly admitted that he
stabbed himself because he didn't want to go to work.

"He told investigators that earlier in the day he was on his skateboard
and was wearing his company uniform and he fell down and ripped his
pants, and was afraid that if he did go into work that he would be
reprimanded for that," Davis said.

Siebers was charged in municipal court and fined for obstructing an
officer and false reporting. He declined to comment to Fox 31 News.