ROCK HILL, NY — A 37-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested for selling a man a box of rocks but claiming there was a new television inside the box.

Police say that, on September 21, Jonathan Kimball approached a victim at the Citgo gas station in Rock Hill and offered to sell him a brand-new television in a sealed carton.

The victim paid Kimball $400 for the box, but when he got home and opened the box, he discovered there was no television inside. Instead, there were some rocks placed in the box to give it some weight.

A few hours later, the victim spotted Kimball at the Trading Post in Rock Hill. The victim confronted Kimball, but he drove away. The victim, however, was able to get Kimball’s license plate number. He called the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office and reported the scam.

Deputies tracked the vehicle to New Jersey, and with the help of the Belleville Police Department got the suspect to surrender at the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office in Monticello on September 26.

Kimball, of Belleville, NJ, was charged with “fraudulent accosting” and “criminal nuisance” in the second degree, both misdemeanors. Kimball was also charged with the violation of peddling without a license under the Town of Thompson local law. The suspect was released on $200 bail.

Sheriff Mike Schiff said, “If someone is offering to sell you electronics out of the back of a car at a gas station for a very low price, it is probably too good to be true.”