A Pennsylvania woman has confessed to falsely accusing an innocent man she never met of trying to rape and kidnap her all because he looked ‘creepy’.
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, pleaded guilty to filing a false police report against 41-year-old Daniel Pierson, whom she accused of attempting to kidnap and rape her.
Pierson was held on a $1 million bail, charged with multiple felonies and spent a month in jail because of the false claims.
Urumova alleged that on April 16, 2024, Pierson attacked her outside a supermarket pulled her pants down and struck her in the face.
‘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 cell phone data.’
The review led found multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information with Urumova’s account of the attack.’ Urumova was confronted by authorities and ‘admitted she lied about the entire incident’, confirming she hadn’t been attacked by anyone, prosecutors said.
Urumova also said that she ‘specifically targeted’ and identified Pierson as her attacker because she had ‘seen him and the truck in the past’ and was able to describe him and the vehicle to the police.
She described the vehicle as a dark blue Ford F-150 pickup truck with a ‘thin blue line’ sticker on the back windshield with visible dents and rust of the exterior.
The injury to her face was allegedly due to an altercation with a family member.
Urumova pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanour charges: 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.
The charges against Pierson were dropped, and he was freed.
Common Pleas Judge Stephen Corr deferred sentencing so she can undergo a pre-sentence investigation.