The woman who claimed she was restrained and robbed by an intruder in Aroldis Chapman's hotel room in Pittsburgh on May 29 has been charged with filing a false police report, a misdemeanor.
Claudia Manrique, 26, of Silver Spring, Md., originally told Pittsburgh police she was alone when a man posing as a maintenance worker attacked her as she waited in a the hotel room for Chapman, who was with the team for a game at PNC Park against the Pirates.
Jewelry and other valuables of Chapman's were reported missing.
She changed her story several times during a 12 hour interview. She failed a polygraph and began sobbing during the interrogation.
Chapman, the Cincinnati Reds closer, told detectives he met the woman in April in the Washington, D.C. They would meet in other cities where the Reds were playing.
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