A Pennsylvania woman admitted last week to fabricating attempted rape allegations against a man who spent a month in jail before his release.
Anjela Urumova, 20, claimed a man attacked her from behind at a grocery store in Middletown Township after she parked her vehicle. Urumova claimed the man punched her in the face and pulled her pants down before she fled, according to WPVI.
Though Urumova did not initially identify her attacker, she described the man’s pickup truck — which license-plate readers tracked a quarter mile away from the store minutes before the April 2024 incident. From there, Urumova identified a suspect out of two possible suspects. The man she accused drove a pickup truck that resembled the one she claimed belonged to her attacker, according to Philly Burbs.
Law & Crime reported that the falsely-accused man was Daniel Pierson, 31, who spent 31 days in jail on $1 million bail.
Pierson was released from custody on May 17 — the same day authorities confronted Urumova about inconsistencies with her story. She confessed to fabricating claims against Pierson because she found him “creepy,” Philly Burbs reported.
The news outlet reported that Urumova’s story unraveled after Pierson’s family contacted police about contradictory information in this case. Middletown police reviewed surveillance footage which showed the only pickup truck in the parking lot at the time was Urumova’s.
Urumova told police that she planned to admit the allegations were a lie in June, before Pierson’s preliminary hearing.
Urumova pleaded guilty to creating a false alarm, making false reports, and tampering with or fabricating evidence. The judge deferred sentencing to conduct a pre-sentencing investigation.
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