False Reports to Law Enforcement

On June 28, 2022 Chelsea Martin, 28 of Franklin, came to the Sugarcreek Borough Police Department and made verbal as well as written statements that she had been raped by two black males that had verbally assaulted her.

Martin stated that the two black males confronted her at UPMC Northwest. She then stated later that they had come to her house where they drugged her husband so he wouldn’t wake up and then raped her.

Sugarcreek Borough Police conducted interviews with UPMC staff and watched hours of video where it was determined that there were no black males in the area that she alleged this was to have happened.

Chelsea Martin was charged with the following:
False Reports to Law Enforcement – Misdemeanor 3 (1 count)

Charges were filed through Magistrate Lowrey’s office.