A Millbury, Mass. woman, the wife of a policeman, reported earlier this month that her house had been robbed of jewelry and cash, and that the burglars had spray-painted "BLM"—a likely reference to the Black Lives Matter movement—on the outside. The only problem with this timely story? It was all made up.
Millbury police announced on Friday that they were charging Maria Daly with filing a false police report and misleading a police investigation, according to area station WBZ. Daly, police say, "robbed" her own house over money issues, and then spray-painted the graffiti in an attempt to place blame elsewhere.
Millbury Police Chief Donald Desorcy, reasonably enough, smelled a rat from the beginning. “Something wasn’t quite right,” he told the station. “I think that was pretty obvious and as a result of that investigation, the officers did their due diligence and followed through with the investigation that we had. Basically we came to the conclusion that it was all fabricated. There was no intruder, there was no burglary.”
Just after the "robbery," Daly went on Facebook—of course—and wrote about what supposedly happened. “We woke up to not only our house being robbed while we were sleeping, but to see this hatred for no reason,” she posted.
Daly's husband, Officer Daniel Daly, has been ruled out of the investigation—the cops say he had no idea what his wife was doing.
This is not the first time people have attempted to use BLM as a scapegoat. In the fall of 2015, a Texas man claimed that Black Lives Matter activists had vandalized his truck, but police determined he did the damage himself.
