‘She targeted an innocent man’: Woman who set up guy to spend 31 days in jail because he was ‘creepy’ will be doing time herself

A Pennsylvania antheral spent a period successful jailhouse for allegedly attempting to rape and kidnap a 20-year-old pistillate successful a supermarket parking batch past twelvemonth — until it was revealed that the expected unfortunate had completely fabricated the full ordeal. Now the man’s accuser, 20-year-old Anjela Borisova Urumova, volition beryllium doing her ain stint down bars for the lies that could person derailed an guiltless man’s life, authorities announced

According to a news release from the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, Common Pleas Judge Stephen A. Corr connected Tuesday ordered Urumova to service 45 days to 23 months successful a authorities correctional installation arsenic good arsenic 1 twelvemonth of probation. She volition besides beryllium required to acquisition a intelligence heath valuation and wage $3,600 successful restitution to the victim, whom she is prohibited from contacting.

“Not lone did this targeted mendacious study interaction the unfortunate and his household successful unimaginable ways, but determination is besides a profound ripple effect,” District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said successful a connection pursuing the sentencing hearing. “A transgression similar this tin shatter the community’s assurance successful the system. It tin jeopardize prosecutions of morganatic crimes of intersexual violence. The prosecution and condemnation of this suspect for a malicious mendacious study demonstrates that this volition not beryllium tolerated.”

Prosecutors said that the victim, Daniel Pierson, attended Tuesday’s proceedings on with his woman and mother, but they did not work a unfortunate interaction connection due to the fact that the lawsuit was “still excessively affectional for them.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, Urumova successful January formally pleaded blameworthy to 7 transgression charges successful transportation with the fictitious story, including 1 number each of mendacious alarm to an bureau of nationalist information and tampering with oregon fabricating carnal evidence, 2 counts of mendacious reports, and 3 counts of unsworn falsification to authorities.

Urumova connected April 16, 2024, accused Pierson of attacking her extracurricular of a Redner’s supermarket successful Middleton Township, claiming the 41-year-old antheral pulled her pants down and struck her successful the face. At the clip she claimed to person been attacked, Urumova had a disposable laceration connected her lip.

“As portion of the investigation, Middletown Township Police collected and reviewed disposable surveillance videos from aggregate retailers successful the country of the reported attack, and a detective with the DA’s bureau conducted a forensic reappraisal of Urumova’s cellphone data,” prosecutors antecedently said. “The reappraisal led to the find of aggregate inconsistencies and contradictory accusation with Urumova’s relationship of the onslaught astatine the Redner’s parking lot.”

When authorities confronted Urumova regarding the conflicting facts successful her narrative, she “admitted she lied astir the full incident” and confirmed that she had not been attacked by anyone, prosecutors said.

While admitting that she made up the battle retired of full cloth, Urumova besides divulged that she “specifically targeted” and identified Pierson arsenic her attacker due to the fact that she had “seen him and the motortruck successful the past” and was capable to picture him and the conveyance to police. She described the conveyance arsenic a acheronian bluish Ford F-150 pickup motortruck with a “thin bluish line” sticker connected the backmost windshield with disposable dents and rust connected the exterior.

Urumova further stated that her injuries were really the effect of an incidental with her grandmother, but she falsely blamed Pierson due to the fact that she’d seen him earlier and believed him to beryllium “creepy,” according to a transcript of the transgression ailment obtained by Law&Crime.

“Her grandmother, who Urumova claimed suffered from dementia, did not admit her arsenic she entered the location and threw a integrative entity astatine her, striking her successful the lip,” the ailment states. “This incidental allegedly caused the laceration to her articulator that she aboriginal blamed connected Pierson.”

As a effect of Urumova’s mendacious accusations, Pierson was charged with aggregate felonies and spent precisely 31 days down bars earlier authorities were capable to find that helium had not done thing illegal. The charges against him were subsequently dropped and helium was acceptable free.

“In this case, she [Urumova] targeted an guiltless antheral and accused him of 1 of the worst crimes a idiosyncratic tin beryllium accused of,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristin M. McElroy said. “I’m incredibly grateful for the enactment that instrumentality enforcement did successful this lawsuit to get down to what happened, but it can’t alteration the information that a antheral spent 31 days sleeping successful a compartment for a transgression helium didn’t commit.”

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