A 20-year-old Pennsylvania woman admitted she fabricated kidnapping and rape allegations that kept an innocent man locked up for over a month — saying she targeted the stranger because he was “creepy.”
Anjela Borisova Urumova is now facing jail time herself after pleading guilty to charges that she fabricated the sexual assault outside a local supermarket, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said.
Urumova claimed a 41-year-old man attacked her from behind outside a Redner’s supermarket on April 16, cooking up a story that the assailant pulled her pants down and smacked her, leaving a bruise on her face.
The phony victim, who had a cut lip at the time, fingered Daniel Person as her attacker, Law & Crime said.
She later confessed to cops that she got the cut on her lip from an object her grandmother, who suffers from dementia, threw at her when she walked into their home prior to the fake attack.
Urumova told cops she “specifically targeted” Pierson because she had seen him and his blue Ford F-150 pickup truck in the area before, and thought he was “creepy,” Law & Crime reported.
Police launched an investigation into the alleged rape soon after the arrest.
“As part of the investigation, Middletown Township Police collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from multiple retailers in the area of the reported attack, and a detective with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office conducted a forensic review of Urumova’s cellphone data,” prosecutors said.
“The review led to the discovery of multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information with Urumova’s account of the attack at the Redner’s parking lot,” they said.
“As a result of Urumova’s false accusations, a man was charged with multiple felony offenses and remained incarcerated for a total of 31 days before the investigation concluded that Urumova had lied, and the charges against him were withdrawn.”
She was charged and pleaded guilty Thursday to one count each of false alarm to an agency of public safety and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, two counts of false reports and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities, prosecutors said.
A spokesperson for the Buck’s County DA said Tuesday that Urumova is facing up to 17 years in prison when she is sentenced in the case on March 21.