CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A Clarksville woman has been charged with filing a false report after allegedly fabricating a story about a man approaching her in a Walmart parking lot.
According to a news release from the Clarksville Police Department, on Feb. 8, 33-year-old Kristy Boase told a police officer that on Feb. 5 she was approached by an unknown man as she was putting groceries in her vehicle parked near the fuel pump area of Walmart on Wilma Rudolph Blvd.
Boase said she noticed the man standing near a vehicle along with two males a short distance away. She claimed the man said, “Let me help you with the groceries.” She declined and told him not to come any closer to her. Boase said the male was persistent, and she warned him that she had pepper spray. Boase said the male got in her personal space, sprayed an entire can of pepper spray on the male, and he fell to the ground.
Boase then said she drove away and called her husband, who instructed her to call the police. She called her place of employment and asked an employee to give her a specific CPD officer’s cell phone number, which was posted on her work bulletin board.
According to Boase, she called the officer, who told her dispatch was already notified by a witness and the suspect was in custody for unrelated charges.
After checking the 911 call log during that time frame, no complaint of that nature was found. The officer Boase claimed she contacted said he had never talked to her on that date.
A written statement was taken from Boase and forwarded to District 3 Criminal Investigations for further investigation. The statements were submitted as evidence.
During the course of Detective Howard Gillespie’s investigation, it has been determined that the incident never happened, and Kristy Boase knew at the time that the information that she provided to responding officers was false.
Kristy Boase from Adams, TN was arrested March 16 and booked into Montgomery County Jail for Filing a False Police Report. Her total bond amount is $10,000.