You can file some reports online through the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's online reporting platform. Find out how to report a crime and your rights as a victim. Contents.Making a false report to law enforcement is a type of Obstruction of Justice and a criminal offense under North Carolina Criminal Law 14-225. D) CMPD does not keep statistics on undocumented immigrants because immigration status is not checked until a suspect is in the hands of the. They had the wrong name: CMPD officers detain school teacher because of mistaken identity. No it is not necessarily a false arrest. In fact, the odds of it being a false arrest are very small. "That's not our stuff," said Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Deputy Patrick Colson. If this happens, you can go in person to the police precinct where you were arrested after you are released. The police power to arrest is not unlimited.