Carbon woman gets jail time for false reports to police
A Carbon County woman was sentenced to a county prison term on Thursday on charges of giving false reports to police.
Amanda Everitt, 27, of Palmerton, pleaded guilty in two pending cases to one count each of false reports to incriminate another and unsworn falsification to authorities.
She was charged by Palmerton police for an incident on Sept. 25, 2017, when she made a false report that an ex-boyfriend had threatened her. She was arrested by Jim Thorpe police for an incident on Nov. 3, 2017, in which she filed a false protection from abuse report about the same male victim.
President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II, who accepted the pleas, said Everitt’s actions were serious because she made the same false reports about the same person causing him distress.
On the unsworn count Nanovic sentenced her to serve one to 12 months in prison, and on the false reports count one year probation with the terms running consecutively. She was also ordered to get a mental health evaluation and follow any recommendation for treatment, render 100 hours of community service, pay court costs of about $1,000, pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and probation and have no contact with the victim.
She was given credit for two days served in jail on the charges. She will serve the remaining time on two-day consecutive weekends beginning June 8 at 9 a.m.
