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NY - Meteorologist Heidi Jones Charged With Filing False Rape Report

Original Article 12/15/2010 By JAMIE SCHRAM and LEONARD GREENE Heidi charged with making up assault tale Here's Heidi's forecast: Cloudy with a chance of deception. WABC/Channel 7 weather babe Heidi Jones was arrested for perpetrating the ultimate snow job -- falsely claiming to cops that a man had tried to rape her while she was jogging in Central Park, sources said yesterday. Jones, who anchors the station's weekend evening weather coverage and fills in on "Good Morning America," was charged Monday with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor. If convicted, she could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine. - If the person she accused was charged, they would have received a lot longer sentence than this, and a life of shame. Jones spun a story that proved to be as unreliable as a five-day forecast, telling police last month that she was assaulted in September while pounding the pavement in the city's back yard, the sources said...continue to full post

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