Woman admits to lying about being kidnapped and raped, alleged suspect spent over a month in jail | Law Enforcement Today

BUCKS COUNTY, PA - The District Attorney's Office for Bucks County announced that a 20-year-old woman has admitted to lying about kidnapping and rape allegations that kept an innocent man behind bars for over a month, saying she targeted him because he was "creepy."

The woman, identified as Anjela Borisova Urumova, pleaded guilty on Thursday, January 16th, to filing a false report about the attempted kidnapping and rape that allegedly took place in the parking lot of a Redner's in Middletown Township back in April of 2024. Urumova, of Bristol Township, pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanor counts, including 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. 

Urumova's false accusations led to an innocent man being charged with multiple felony offenses and being incarcerated for a total of 31 days before the investigation into the incident concluded that the woman had lied. The charges against the man have since been withdrawn.

According to the New York Post, Urumova claimed that a 41-year-old man attacked her from behind outside the Redner's supermarket on April 16, 2024. She told police that he pulled her pants down and smacked her, leaving a bruise on her face. She had a cut lip at the time of the incident and claimed that Daniel Pierson was her attacker.

She later confessed to police 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. She told police that 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."

Prosecutors said, "As part of the investigation, MiddletownTownship Police collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from multiple retailers in the area of the reported attack, and a detective with the Buck's 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." She was charged and pleaded guilty. A spokesperson for the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said that Urumova is facing up to 17 years in prison when she gets sentenced on March 21st.

In a separate incident, a South Florida woman is facing charges of armed robbery and attempted murder after police said she shot at a man and falsely accused him of rape. According to NBC Miami, police were called to a warehouse parking lot on January 6th where 22-year-old Valerie Meza-Faublack claimed that a man fired shots at her after trying to rape her.

She claimed that after she met the man outside her work, he drove her to the parking lot, where he armed himself with a gun and forcibly removed her clothes and raped her. Surviellance video shows her talking to police when they responded. Police brought her to a medical facility that handles alleged rape cases to get a rape kit test, but she refused.

Investigators later spoke with the man, who said Meza-Faublack asked him to leave with her. When they were inside the car, they did not have sex. She alleged took his gun and opened fire several times. The man, luckily, was able to escape without being injured.

Police said surveillance video contradicted the woman's statements and showed her shooting into the victim's vehicle. She fired at him 15 times. She has a criminal history and was out on probation for an unrelated case where she faces charges of acting as a real estate broker without a license, organized fraud and grand theft. She remains in jail without bond.