The Hillsboro woman confessed to lying to police about being assaulted.
A Hillsboro woman was arrested after falsely reporting an assault at her home on Sunday. 20-year-old Heather R. Cress told officers she was assaulted by a male subject who had entered her Meadow Circle residence Sunday evening and struck her in the head with an object.
On further investigation, officers realized the evidence at the scene did not match Cress' story.
Cress then confessed that she had lied about the entire incident.
Cress was charged with a first-degree misdemeanor of falsification.