Nolan sentenced for lying to police

A woman who made up a far-fetched story of her abduction and rape this September will serve 150 days for lying to police.

The defendant, Jessica Lynn Nolan, 26, entered a guilty plea recently to the charge of filing a false report. She was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve 150 days of a three-year sentence and perform 30 hours public service work.

Nolan’s sentence comes after she broke down during questioning by police as they were investigating her claim she was kidnapping and raped by a group of Hispanic males.

The chain of events which led to the false story unfolded when she was reported missing by her husband. Police, acting on the missing persons report, found her car in the Wal-Mart parking lot and began investigating what they thought could be a case of foul play. Officers went to the length of examining store surveillance tapes of the parking lot to see if they could catch a glimpse of any activity around where her car was parked.

It was a short time later the missing woman returned home, presenting a wild story about her unaccounted time. According to Nolan’s original story, she was abducted by Hispanic males from the Wal-Mart parking lot. She said she believed she may have been raped by the men, but was not sure since she could not recall all of the events which occurred while she was missing. Specifically, she claimed to have no memory of the night she disappeared.

Disbelieving her story, police questioned her further and soon had a retraction of her story. Given the fact the fake story was discovered early, there were no arrests made against falsely accused suspects. It has not been determined for sure where Nolan was during the time police were looking for her in a case of possible foul play.