Ms. Thomas was arrested on two counts of false reporting. (Representative photo)
An 18-year-old woman in the United States was arrested for calling 911 to avoid meeting a man she met on a dating app. According to The Independent, the woman, identified as Sumaya Thomas, was arrested after deputies said she told a dispatcher that her abusive ex-boyfriend of two years was outside her home and sending threatening text messages. She told police the man told her he wanted to hit, kick, punch and stab.
Ms. Thomas was arrested on June 16 on two counts of false reporting, both misdemeanor felonies, The Independent reported. The 18-year-old even told police that she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend’s child. Most of the conversations took place on Snapchat, she said.
However, upon arriving at the scene, police saw the man leaving the residence. He reportedly told officers that he started talking to the woman a week ago on a dating app. The two then moved their conversations off the platform and began texting. The man also showed officers the text messages and conversations from the dating app, after which officers confirmed that the messages were sent to the woman’s phone.
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The man was detained for more than an hour due to the false accusations. It was during a third interview that Ms. Thomas admitted to making the false report because she “was afraid to meet him and didn’t want to anymore.”
“She advised that she did not think the officers would help, so she made up this call and the events she described,” the police complaint stated.
Thomas was arrested last week and later released from the Johnson County Jail in Iowa.
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