Woman arrested for calling police to 'escape date with man she met online'

A woman was arrested for falsely reporting a crime after she called police and made up a story to get out of a first date.

Sumaya Thomas, 18, planned a romantic evening with a stranger she had matched with on a dating app, but when he showed up at her door on June 16, she suddenly “got cold feet” and called the cops.

The North Liberty, Iowa, woman told police the man was an “abusive” ex who “threatened” to physically harm her, according to an affidavit in the bizarre case.

Thomas, who also falsely claimed she was pregnant with the man's child, said he planned to “hit her, punch her, kick her and stab her.”

When officers arrived on scene, the man informed them that he had only met Thomas through a dating app about a week earlier, providing officials with evidence of messages exchanged between the two men.

“The conversation showed that he was honest and that he had really just met this woman,” the affidavit reads.

Thomas, however, told police that they had known each other for two years and accused the man of being “violent” and “threatening to harm him”, while claiming that their written communication had taken place via Snapchat.

Police later discovered that Thomas was lying and had deleted messages from her phone between her and her date, and she eventually “admitted to making the false reports because she was afraid to meet him.”

The report claims she “didn't think the officers would help her, so she made up the call and the events she described.”

As a result, the man, whose name has not been released, was detained for more than an hour.

According to the Daily Mail, Thomas was arrested and charged with two counts of falsely reporting a criminal act against a public entity, which is a misdemeanor, and one count of falsely reporting a call to 911.