Sheriff: Buckingham woman stabbed herself, filed false report

A Buckingham County woman will face charges of filing a false report in relation to a bogus home-invasion stabbing incident last week, according to the sheriff.
The 41-year-old woman reported being attacked by two people in her home the morning of Feb. 5., but she has confessed to fabricating the story and inflicting the wound herself, Sheriff William G. Kidd Jr. said in a release Wednesday.

She stabbed herself in the stomach and was treated for the injury at the University of Virginia Medical Center, said the sheriff, adding that the woman was lucky to avoid serious injury.
He declined to provide the woman’s name. She has not yet been charged.
Authorities said the woman told them that at about 10 a.m. two people came to her house, in the 4000 block of Warminister Church Road, and attempted to sell her household goods.

According to the woman, the pair left but returned a short time later, forced their way into the home and stabbed her, the sheriff said.
Investigators questioned several people and “determined that they could not have possibly been involved in the crime,” the sheriff said.
“Evidence at the scene did not correspond with the alleged victim’s statement,” he added.
At around the same time as the bogus report, there were reports of suspicious people going door-to-door in Greene and Albemarle counties.
Police have not found anything to confirm wrongdoing related to the reports.

After those reports, the owner of a recently opened Kirby vacuum business said his salespeople had been working in Albemarle, according to Lt. Todd Hopwood, with the Albemarle County police.
He said it was possible those salespeople were legitimately doing their jobs and people just became suspicious.
But he also said the incidents could have been real scammers.
“I can’t rule it out,” he said at the time.