Halifax police charge woman with making false report

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By CityNews Halifax Staff

Regional police have charged a woman with making a false report, claiming an officer arrested her with excessive force last November.

On Nov. 6, officers responded to a disturbance at a home in Dartmouth where a 33-year-old woman was arrested and charged for obstruction.

Then in February, the woman made a complaint, saying the arresting officers used excessive force.

Police say after an investigation conducted by the Halifax Regional Police Office of Professional Standards, they determined the officers did not use excessive force and the woman had fabricated evidence and intimidated a witness with threats.

She is scheduled to appear in court at a later date to face a number of charges including:

• Public mischief: Making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence
• Public mischief: Doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed
• Public mischief: Reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed
• Fabricating evidence
• Intimidation by threats