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Former NY Weather Woman Pleads Guilty To Lying About Assault


Posted on Sep 14, 2011 @ 05:30PM - 3 comments

By Radar Staff

A disgraced TV weather woman admitted on Wednesday that she madeup a story about being assaulted by a mystery Hispanic man, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Heidi Jones appeared in the Manhattan Supreme Court and plead guilty to charges of fabricating the assault, reported the New York Daily News.

The 38-year-old former WABC-TV weather anchor and occasional forecaster on Good Morning America cried wolf on December 1 when she claimed a "Hispanic" man had attacked her in Central Park while she was out jogging, and again outside her apartment earlier in the fall.

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TV Weather Anchor Heidi Jones Denies Claiming Attempted Rape, Says Lawyer


Posted on Dec 18, 2010 @ 08:12AM - 1 comment

WABC meteorologist Heidi Jones is unfairly in the center of a media storm ever since police accused her of filing a false assault report, her attorney, Paul Callan said Friday.

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Callan says Jones never told police she was raped or was the victim of an attempted rape, and has been wrongly portrayed in "disturbingly one-sided and unfair" accounts about her arrest.

WABC meteorologist Heidi Jones is unfairly in the center of a media storm ever since police accused her of filing a false assault report, her attorney, Paul Callan said Friday.

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Callan says Jones never told police she was raped or was the victim of an attempted rape, and has been wrongly portrayed in "disturbingly one-sided and unfair" accounts about her arrest.

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Police arrested Jones Monday for filing a false police report. According to numerous news outlets including MSNBC the police say Jones,  who also fills in as a substitute weather forecaster on  ABC's Good Morning America, told them while she was jogging in Central Park on September 24, a Hispanic man in his 30s or 40s grabbed her from behind, dragged her into a wooded area and attempted to rape her. Jones also said  that man was scared off by two people who tried to help her.

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But inconsistencies in her story, as well as cops not being able to find witnesses or physical evidence, led the police to accuse her of filing a false report.

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WABC has suspended Jones pending the outcome of an internal investigation. If convicted of the Class A misdemeanor,  she could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine.

Jones' attorney declined to say exactly what his client did tell the cops.

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VIDEO: TV Weather Forecaster Suspended After Falsely Reporting Attempted Rape


Posted on Dec 16, 2010 @ 06:46AM - 2 comments

A prominent weather forecaster at WABC-TV -- The ABC television station in New York -- has been suspended from her job and could face charges for filing a false police report after she claimed  she was attacked in Central Park

A prominent weather forecaster at WABC-TV -- The ABC television station in New York -- has been suspended from her job and could face charges for filing a false police report after she claimed  she was attacked in Central Park 

Heidi Jones, 37,  -- who also fills in as a subsitute weather forecast on  ABC's Good Morning America -- told cops she was jogging in the park on September 24 when a Hispanic man in his 30s or 40s grabbed her from behind, dragged her into a wooded area and attempted to rape her.  Jones also said that man  was scared off by two people who tried to help her.

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