Sunday, July 20, 2014
Woman Who Claimed Neighbor Vandalized Property Is Charged With Filing False Report
A Lawrenceburg woman who claimed her neighbor had vandalized her property is now charged with filing a false police report.
The police report was filed last week by a resident of South Circle. She told Lawrenceburg Police officers that she had been out of town, returning to find that her flower beds had been vandalized.
She said the edging had been pulled up and thrown into her yard and her solar lights busted. She said she had incurred damages of around $120.
When the officer went to the neighbor’s home to confront him, he told him he had not vandalized his neighbor’s property. He showed the officer the property line, where some of the complainant’s edging was across the line. He said he had simply picked up a piece of edging that was on his property and laid it in her yard.
The neighbor told the officer that the woman, herself, had inflicted the damages and he could offer proof.
He showed the officer a camera that was mounted on the exterior of his residence, pointed toward the flower beds. He then took the officer inside and showed him surveillance footage from the previous night. The officer noted that it showed the complainant damaging her own property.
The officer reports that he went next door to confront the complainant and that she told him she no longer wished to file a report.
The officer indicates that he told the woman that there would, indeed, be a report, but that the report would be one for filing a false complaint with law enforcement. He told her that he would be obtaining a warrant, charging her with the crime. At the time the report was filed a warrant had not yet been served.
