RENO, Nev., May 21 (UPI) -- Police in Reno, Nev., say a swimmer naked from the waist down who was charged with indecent exposure may have been on drugs.

Authorities said Blake Lister, 23, was initially thought to be shouting for help when spotted floating down the Truckee River, but he resisted rescue attempts by the Reno Fire Department. Rescue workers said it became apparent he was singing and talking to himself, and did not appear to consider himself to be in distress.

However, firefighters forced Lister to shore after he pulled himself onto a large rock and revealed himself to be naked from the waist down. Reno Police Sgt. Dave Macauley said Lister was taken to St. Mary's Regional Medical Center for a checkup and was then arrested for indecent exposure, a gross misdemeanor.

Macauley said alcohol was not involved in the incident, but Lister allegedly said, "I'll never take drugs again" after being pulled from the water.

Trucker charged in fuel theft

MCARTHUR, Ohio, May 21 (UPI) -- Authorities in Ohio say a truck driver is facing charges after allegedly stealing more than $600 worth of fuel from another truck.

Vinton County sheriff's deputies said trucker Mike Ebert jumped into the cab of Carl Wilson's truck after the second man allegedly siphoned the diesel fuel, which was priced at $4.39 per gallon at the time of the theft, from his vehicle at a truck stop near McArthur, Ohio, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported Wednesday.

Ebert managed to gain control of the slowly moving truck and brought it to a stop while speaking to authorities on his cell phone.

Wilson, 49, was arrested and charged with a felony count of fuel theft.

Trailer found, liquor still missing

CLAYTON, N.C., May 21 (UPI) -- Police in Clayton, N.C., said a stolen trailer has been recovered, but without the $150,000 worth of liquor it had been hauling.

Police said Miami-Dade County, Fla., authorities found the trailer undamaged near the Everglades, the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer reported Wednesday.

The cab of the truck was previously recovered on the interstate in Johnson County, N.C.

Donald Parks, the driver of the truck, said he had parked it overnight in a parking lot May 1 and it was missing when he returned the following morning.

Woman invented dead soldier daughter

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., May 21 (UPI) -- A North Charleston, S.C., woman has admitted to inventing a daughter she claimed was slain in Iraq to convince creditors to give her more time to pay bills.

Melanie Grant, 39, said she fed a false story about a daughter who was killed while serving in Iraq to Suburban Funeral Home, which took out a $242.77 obituary in The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier for the fictional Lt. Melissa Hope Grant, The Post and Courier reported Wednesday.

Grant said she decided to come clean about the fabrication after the obituary was published and comments were posted online expressing sympathy for the death.

"I just made it up. Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking," Grant said. She said the idea "just came in my head" as a way of convincing her creditors to back off.

Skip Mikell, executive vice president and general manager of Suburban Funeral Home, said the business will not attempt to collect the money Grant owes for the obituary.