A 30-year-old North Carolina woman who allegedly faked her own violent murder using a cellphone app has to appear in court after losing 75 hours to the police team handling her case.
“Sweeney’s actions have caused our department and other departments many hours of work that could have been spent on other cases,” the Franklin Police Department said on Facebook Monday, releasing the list of charges against the woman.
According to NBC, Margaret Frances Elizabeth Sweeney, better known as “Maggie,” reportedly sent anonymous text messages to a friend and the North Carolina Department of Social Services via an app on Friday to disguise her identity, describing her own violent death News on Wednesday.
In the text messages, the 37-year-old woman claimed to have been beaten to death by an iron tire lever, American media reported, citing the arrest warrant.
However, Maggie Sweeney would have been found alive and well in a park the next day, according to the police team, who could have traced the text messages back to her.
In total, the various police teams would have spent 75 hours searching for him and the subsequent investigations.
She was accused of making false statements at a police station, making false reports of death or serious injuries over the phone, and obstructing police officers. The law listed the police.
However, no information was given on the motives of the accused.
This story comes just weeks after a 25-year-old Alabama woman, Carlee Russell, confessed to fabricating her own kidnapping.
The woman was eventually charged with misrepresentation to law enforcement and misrepresentation of an incident, and faces up to a year in prison, NBC News recalled.