PORT ANGELES — Charges will not be filed against a Sequim woman who falsely reported that a homicide had occurred in a central Port Angeles neighborhood.
Deputy Port Angeles Police Chief Brian Smith said Tuesday that police do not plan to pursue charges against the woman because she appeared to be mentally disabled.
At about 5 p.m. Monday, the Port Angeles Police Department got a call from a Sequim woman saying a homicide had occurred in a house on Georgiana Street east of downtown Port Angeles and that an armed individual was in the residence, Smith said in an email.
She said she was concerned for family members.
After being unable to determine whether the call was credible, Port Angeles police secured the area around the home.
Sequim police officers spoke with the woman who filed the report, Smith said, and they told Port Angeles officers she was not credible and the report was not based on fact.
Sequim Police Chief Bill Dickinson said the woman did not appear to be maliciously reporting a false homicide but might have confused family members she has in California with those she has in Port Angeles.
Smith said the Port Angeles Police Department followed its protocol based on the possibility of a murder and told residents of the Georgiana Street home to stay inside until an all-clear was given about 45 minutes later.
Dickinson said the woman’s report was forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agency in Concord, Calif., which lies about 30 miles east of San Francisco.
Concord police said no homicides had been reported there in the past few days.
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