A Temecula woman who earlier this month reported to police that a burglar had ransacked her home and then tried to sexually assault her at knife-point has told detectives that she fabricated the story to hide recent gambling losses from her family, authorities said Tuesday.
The woman, who was not identified, admitted she made up the story after investigators questioned her about inconsistencies in her story, according to a statement released by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s detectives have referred the case to the district attorney’s office to consider filing a charge of filing a false police report.
On Aug. 9, the woman told police that when she arrived at her home on Lahontan Street about 1:50 p.m., she found that the master bedroom had been burglarized and ransacked. She said that an attacker then jumped at her with a knife and that she was able to fight him off and lock herself in a bathroom, where she called 911 on her cellphone. She was then transported to a local hospital with superficial injuries.
She had described the attacker as a white or Latino male with medium-colored skin.
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