John Jefferson
Inset: Anjela Borisova Urumova (Bucks County DA). Background: The Redner’s supermarket parking lot where she falsely claimed a man tried to rape and kidnap her last year (WPVI).
A Pennsylvania man spent a month in jail for allegedly attempting to rape and kidnap a 20-year-old woman in a supermarket parking lot until it was revealed that his accuser had completely fabricated the entire ordeal. Anjela Borisova Urumova on Thursday formally pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges in connection with the fictitious story, authorities announced.
Specifically, Urumova pleaded to 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.
Common Pleas Judge Stephen Corr deferred Urumova’s sentencing hearing so she could undergo a presentence investigation.
As previously reported by Law&Crime, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Urumova on April 16, 2024, accused Daniel Pierson of attacking her outside of a Redner’s supermarket in Middleton Township, claiming the 41-year-old man pulled her pants down and struck her in the face. At the time she claimed to have been attacked, Urumova had a visible laceration on her lip.
“As part of the investigation, Middletown Township Police collected and reviewed available surveillance videos from multiple retailers in the area of the reported attack, and a detective with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office conducted a forensic review of Urumova’s cellphone data,” the DA’s office said in a release announcing Urumova’s guilty plea. “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.”
When authorities confronted Urumova regarding the conflicting facts in her narrative, she “admitted she lied about the entire incident” and confirmed that she had not been attacked by anyone, prosecutors said.
While admitting that she made up the assault out of whole cloth, Urumova also divulged that she “specifically targeted” and identified Pierson as her attacker because she had “seen him and the truck in the past” and was able to describe him and the vehicle to police. She described the vehicle as a dark blue Ford F-150 pickup truck with a “thin blue line” sticker on the back windshield with visible dents and rust on the exterior.
Urumova further stated that her injuries were actually the result of an incident with her grandmother, but she falsely blamed Pierson because she’d seen him before and believed him to be “creepy,” according to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime.
“Her grandmother, who Urumova claimed suffered from dementia, did not recognize her as she entered the house and threw a plastic object at her, striking her in the lip,” the complaint states. “This incident allegedly caused the laceration to her lip that she later blamed on Pierson.”
As a result of Urumova’s false accusations, Pierson was charged with multiple felonies and spent exactly 31 days behind bars before authorities were able to determine that he had not done anything unlawful. The charges against him were subsequently dropped and he was set free.
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