Warning: This article discusses topics related to rape, which may be distressing for some readers.
A woman offered a shocking rationale for falsely accusing a man she had never encountered of attempted rape.
Anjela Borisova Urumova, hailing from Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, confessed to fabricating a police report in which she accused an unknown man of attempting to kidnap and assault her.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office stated that Urumova alleged to officers that a 41-year-old man had attacked her in the parking lot of Redner’s supermarket in Middletown Township on April 16, 2024.
The 20-year-old asserted that Daniel Pierson had pulled down her pants and hit her in the face.
When she made her report, Urumova reportedly had a noticeable mark on her lip and was able to describe the man’s vehicle with precision.
She claimed he was driving a dented dark blue Ford F-150 pickup adorned with a ‘thin blue line’ sticker on the rear windshield.
After investigators located him, Urumova indicated to Law & Crime that she was ’60 percent sure’ that he was the suspect in a photo lineup.
Pierson was detained on a $1 million bail after facing multiple felony charges and spent a month in custody while the investigation continued.
In a statement from the DA’s office, Middletown Township Police ‘collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from various retailers in the vicinity of the alleged attack’ and examined Urumova’s cellphone.
The investigation discovered ‘multiple inconsistencies and contradictory information’ within her narrative of events.
When confronted with the evidence by police, she reportedly ‘admitted she lied about the entire incident’.
A criminal complaint copy, obtained by Law & Crime, showed she ‘specifically targeted’ the stranger because she had ‘seen him and the truck in the past’.
Regarding her injury, she revealed that it was caused by her grandmother, who has dementia, throwing an object at her. She used this injury to implicate Pierson falsely.
Her most egregious admission was that she accused the innocent man of attacking her because he appeared ‘creepy’.
Urumova pleaded guilty on Thursday to seven criminal charges related to her false claims, according to Law & Crime, including one count of false alarm to an agency of public safety and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Additionally, she pleaded guilty to two counts of false reports and three counts of unsworn falsification to authorities.
Common Pleas Judge Stephen Corr has postponed her sentencing to allow for a pre-sentence investigation.
After Pierson spent 31 days in jail, authorities concluded he had committed no crime, leading to the dismissal of all charges against him and his subsequent release.