From Sandy Louey:

A Sacramento Superior Court judge has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 120 days in county jail and four years of probation for filing a false police report and fraudulent insurance claim.

Judge David De Alba sentenced Nicholas Stanfield Friday after a jury convicted him, according to a news release issued Wednesday from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office.

The release gave this account:

On Dec. 17, 2007, Sacramento police responded to a 911 call about the carjacking of Stanfield's Dodge Ram truck.

Stanfield's face was bruised and his shirt torn. He told officers he was walking to his truck in downtown Sacramento when two men assaulted him, took his keys and drove off in his truck.

Stanfield filed an insurance claim with Ameriprise Insurance and claimed there was more than $4,000 in personal property inside the truck.

He also wanted payment for the truck including $20,000 in customization that he had put into the truck. He also wanted the insurance company to pay for a car rental, towing and storage fees.

Sacramento Police Detective Bryce Heinlein discovered Stanfield had made up the carjacking, asking two friends to beat him up so it looked like he had been attacked.

Stanfield later admitted to the fake carjacking, saying he had financial problems. He missed the $500 monthly truck payments for November and December.

At trial, he testified that he spent $500 on a PlayStation 3 as a Christmas present for himself instead of making the December truck payment, the DA's office said.

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