Woman admits Palatine forest preserve attack was fake
Posted February 26, 2015 12:00 am
A Des Plaines woman whose claim that she was stabbed in a forest preserve turned out to be false was sentenced to two years probation Thursday, prosecutors said.
Veronica Klicka, 33, pleaded guilty to filing a false police report.
She had told police a stranger stabbed her while she was jogging in the Deer Grove East Forest Preserve in Palatine last November.
Cook County Sheriff's police subsequently determined that Klicka had stabbed herself with a knife. Authorities say she created the story because she was on supervision for a DUI and believed she was not allowed to possess a knife as a condition of her supervision.
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