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09/14/2011
NEW YORK - A TV meteorologist has admitted making up claims of being attacked twice in New York City, sparking an extensive police investigation.
Heidi Jones pleaded guilty Wednesday to two misdemeanor counts of falsely reporting an incident. The judge says she will be sentenced to three years' probation and 350 hours of community service. That's the time prosecutors say police spent looking into her phony claims.
- But if someone would've been arrested and charged with the bogus charges, they would've been in prison for years!
Jones told police Dec. 1 a man had attacked her in Central Park last September and again outside her apartment in November.
Jones has been suspended from her job at New York's local ABC station.
She previously worked in cities including Albany, N.Y., and Houston.
She also has filled in on ABC's "Good Morning America."
