Police: Campaign Volunteer Lied, Injured Self

KDKA Channel 2 ^ | Oct. 24, 2008 | KDKA

[van_erwin]

Ashley Todd, 20, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police

Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker. 

At a news conference this afternoon, offiicals said they believe that Ashley Todd's injuries were self-inflicted.  

Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.

Todd initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

Todd told investigators that she didn't remember what happened.

Police say they do not believe any other people were involved; and her friends believed the story about the attack.

According to police, investigators working on the interview process detected several inconsistencies in Todd's story that differed from statements made in the original police report.

Pittsburgh Police Public Information Officer Diane Richard released a statement earlier today, saying: "Because of the inconsistencies in her statements, Ms. Todd was asked to submit to a polygraph examination which she agreed to do."

No photos of Todd are being released by Pittsburgh Police at this time.

[van_erwin]

Looks like Michelle Malkin was right.

[allmost]

Lock her up.

[gwilhelm56]

“Lock her up”

and then I’ll be CURIOUS to see who pays her bail ... McCain Campaign or ACORN

[napscoordinator]

What pisses me off most is that both Senator McCain and Governor Palin took time out of the campaign to call her and her family ensuring she was alright and if she needed anything, let them know. UGH!!!

[healy61]

It was obvious from reading the article. I would guess the cops had a sense at the onset. I wish we had caning in this country.

[mlocher]

Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.

Book 'er, Danno!

[machogirl]

good, don’t need this type working anyway.

How long has she been a republican?

[allmost]

Neither, some new soros funded group probably.

[ScottinVA]

I had doubts about her from the first time I saw that pic. No swelling or redness on the face. A lot of us were skeptical.

[MrB]

What’s she’s done is to give

future attacks by 0bama thugs

a free pass.

[KJC1]

What this woman did is disgraceful and I hope she is charged with filing a false report.

I’m not a mod, but just as a FReeper, I don’t think we need any more threads on this. It’s over and I don’t see any benefit in continuing to focus on this; the MSM will do a good enough job on reporting this NOW that it has been shown to be a hoax instead of reporting on the Obama campaign donations, etc.

[Godsgirl]

She needs some jail time. This is the type of stuff that stirs up race and hate. We need to put out the fire not make it bigger. Wonder if they will report a motive. Hope Mccain and Palin jump on this right away so that obama can’t play the race/victum card.

[showme_the_Glory]

Obama plant no doubt.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Watch for the outrage about this. Watch for no outrage about similar hoaxes perpetrated by democrats.

[ex-snook]

"How long has she been a republican?"

Good Q. Also what was a Texan doing in Pennsylvania seems unknown.

[Godsgirl]

oops! That’s victim, not victum for all you grammar police out there.

[MitchellC]

Obama did as well.

I knew in my gut that she was faking, the moment I saw her picture. And I don’t mean the “B.”

[napscoordinator]

I knew in my gut that she was faking, the moment I saw her picture. And I don’t mean the “B.”

lol. I sorta did too, but I just found out about the story today I believe (maybe late last night). I have been on this site for many hours the last 24 hours.

[trumandogz]

Well, there were more than a few people around here yesterday that speculated that McCain should use the “attack” as an issue against Obama. Both McCain and Palin even made phone calls to the racist thug.

So, I imagine that the Obama Campaign will use the false police report against a black man by an McCain staffer to go after McCain.