A Jefferson woman was arrested for allegedly reporting false information to police.

Police Chief Mark Clouse says 38 year-old Stacie Maureen Clark was arrested Monday and charged with a serious misdemeanor for false report of indictable offense to a public entity.

The charge stems from an investigation about an alleged stabbing incident that was reported by Clark on Monday, September 19th. As we’ve previously reported, around 9:30pm, a male dressed in black attacked Clark from behind her chainlink fence, as she was bending over to pick up her dog from her backyard. She claimed she was stabbed in the lower left stomach area. An officer found her sitting on the kitchen floor. The grass in the backyard had heavy dew on it and Clark said she crawled back to her house after she was stabbed and put her dog in the kennel in her bedroom and then called 911. She described her alleged attacker having “cruel” eyes, wearing a hat and being about six-foot tall. However, because it was dark out, she couldn’t remember if he was wearing glasses or if he had facial hair. She was then flown to Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines as a result of her injury and she was released on Wednesday, September 21st.

Court documents show that Clark was interviewed again on September 23rd at the Law Enforcement Center. Investigators noticed that Clark gave conflicting statements during the interview. She said her attacker appeared in front of her and grabbed the back of her head, pulled her close and then stabbed her and disappeared. She also said her attacker had green eyes, but couldn’t see if her was wearing glasses, which investigators thought was odd because if you can see someone’s eye color, they are able to see if they are wearing glasses. She then fell backwards and “lobster crawled” to get to her house. She also admitted to taking medication because she was bipolar.

Then on September 25th, Captain Heath Enns and another officer stopped by Clark’s residence at 506 North Oak Street. Clark agreed to walk Enns through where she crawled the night she was allegedly attacked. She told police that she remembered the attacker being outside of her fence and she had a large horizontal dark spot on her chest. She said her chest hit the top rail of the fence when she was pulled in. She ended up crawling 110 feet across the dewy grass, concrete and pea gravel to get inside her house.

Court documents show that Enns, who was the lead investigator, said based on his training, he found several areas of concern. Due to conflicting statements about how she was positioned compared to her attacker, the fact that she was calm and collective when calling 911, not remembering if her attacker was wearing glasses but could describe his eye color, the officer that originally arrived on scene found her clothes to be clean, with the exception of a small circle of blood on her shirt where the cut was and the bruise on her chest being a flat gray color and not different colors if someone had hit an object, led to the misdemeanor charge.

Clouse says because some of his officers were tied up in over 40 hours with the investigation, the investigators weren’t available to put time into the recent vehicle burglaries or other ongoing drug cases. He reiterates his comments before about not finding evidence that the public was in anytime in danger.

Clark was booked and released from the Greene County jail. She was then taken to Greene County Medical Center for evaluation.