HATE HOAX: Fmr NFL Player Destroyed Own Business, Spray-Painted Racial Slurs, Swastikas & 'MAGA' In Staged Burglary

Authorities said officers were called to the Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman's Creamery on Duluth Highway on Wednesday to a report of burglary in progress.

Officers later went into the business and found graffiti including "racially-motivated" words, swastikas and "MAGA" spray-painted on the walls, among other damage.

[...] Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes was at the Create and Bake and Coughman's Creamery Friday, where she could still see the vandalism through the window. Flat-screen televisions were ripped off the walls and offensive slurs were still spray-painted on the walls.

[...] Pihera said a shopping plaza maintenance worker saw someone burglarizing the restaurant around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and called police. Some officers were already in the area and spotted a black truck without a license plate on it.

[...] Police pulled the truck over thinking it could be a possible burglary suspect. Coughman was driving.

[...] When police searched the back of Coughman's truck, they found several flat-screen TVs that looked a little suspicious.

"The brackets were still attached and there was still drywall attached to the brackets, meaning, someone took them off very quickly," Pihera said.

[...] Police learned he'd already contacted his insurance company.

"He had reported this incident to his insurance company prior to officers conducting that first pull-over," Pihera said. "He was attempting to leave that shopping center when our officers conducted that felony stop. Everything lined up for this perfect arrest."