Unless they just flat-out lie about an arrest, which is the case here.
"FBI: Egyptian Students Had Fireworks, Not Bombs"
The University of South Florida engineering students have been in jail since sheriff's deputies found what they called bomb-making materials in their car during a traffic stop.
But federal investigators said that Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 26, and Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, were carrying low-grade fireworks, which is what they told deputies who stopped them at the time.
Mohamed and Megahed were indicted on federal charges of transporting explosives illegally.U.S. attorney's office spokesman Steve Cole declined to talk about the report on Thursday."
Also see: South Carolina Terror