A tour-bus driver who claimed he was bus-jacked at gunpoint actually stole his own motor coach, drove around for more than 17 hours and used $400 of his employer's money to buy drugs and alcohol, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a tour group was left waiting for the bus, which was supposed to arrive Monday at 8 a.m.

Bruce Anthony Williams called the Sheriff's Office about 1:20 a.m. Tuesday to report that four men who identified themselves as members of the Bloods gang had robbed him at a Circle K gas station at 7626 W. U.S. Highway 192 and put him in the cargo area, deputies said.

Williams, 53, was pacing and changed his story several times, and investigators quickly decided that he had made up the story, they said. They contacted his employer in North Carolina, who had reported the bus missing after Williams left the tour group high and dry.

Williams told a deputy that he gave the bus-jackers a ride to either Winter Park or Winter Haven after they let him out of the cargo hold.

Later, he admitted driving the bus to parties and using $400 of his employer's money to buy cocaine and alcohol, a sheriff's report states. He also said he got drunk, fell asleep and forgot to pick up the tourists.

Williams, of Raleigh, N.C., is being held in the Osceola County Jail on charges of filing a false police report and grand-theft auto.