Woman arrested for calling cops to ‘get out of a date with man she met online’
A woman was arrested for falsely reporting a crime after she called the cops and fabricated a story in order to get out of a first date .
Sumaya Thomas, 18, scheduled a romantic evening with a stranger she had matched with on a dating app, but when he arrived at her doorstep on Jun. 16. she suddenly “got cold feet” and phoned the cops.
The North Liberty, Iowa, woman told officers that the man was an “abusive” ex who was “threatening” to cause her physical harm, according to an affidavit pertaining to the bizarre case.
Thomas, who also also falsely claimed she was pregnant with the man’s child, said he planned to “hit, punch, kick and stab her.”
When officers arrived at the scene, the man informed them that he had only met Thomas via a dating app approximately one week prior, providing officials with proof of messages between the pair.
“The conversation showed he was being honest and he really did just meet this female,” the affidavit reads.
Thomas, however, had told officers they had known each other for two years and accused the man of being “abusive” and “threatening to cause harm to her,” while claiming their written communication had taken place over Snapchat.
Officers later discovered that Thomas was lying and had deleted messages from her phone between her and her date, and she eventually “admitted to making these false reports because she got cold feet on meeting him.”
The report claims that “she didn’t think officers would help so she made up this call and the events that she described.”
As a result, the man — who was not named — was detained for more than an hour.
According to Daily Mail, Thomas was arrested and charged with two counts of False Report of Indictable Offense to Public Entity, which is a misdemeanor, and one count of False Report on a 911 call.
