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An Illinois woman falsified a sighting of two suspicious men in a cornfield near the hunt for the three people suspected of killing a police officer, for the attention, police said Thursday morning.
Kristin Kiefer, 30, told Lake County sheriff deputies that two men – one white and one black – tried taking her car after she pulled to the side of the road due to car problems, near Volo, Illinois, just south of where Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was fatally shot on Tuesday. The men fled when she called police, Kiefer told authorities.
Responding officer and K-9 units searched the area for five hours but were unable to locate the men.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday morning that the woman admitted to falsifying the sighting “to get attention from a family where she is employed as a nanny.”
“She indicated she chose this location to fabricate the event, as she was aware of the death of a police officer in the area,” the statement said.
Kiefer was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct, including falsifying a police report, which is a felony. She is being held at Lake County Jail pending a bond hearing, police said.
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