District Attorney Bob Lee announced today that criminal charges have been filed against Morgan Triplett (20), a UC Santa Barbara student, for giving false information to the police, a violation of Penal Code Section 148.5- a misdemeanor. These charges stem from an alleged assault reported on the University of California Santa Cruz campus on February 17, 2013. Ms. Triplett will be arraigned within the next week in the Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
The charges are based on false information given by Ms. Triplett when she called 911 claiming that she had been severely beaten and then sexually assaulted by a stranger she encountered while she was walking on a path on the UCSC campus looking for banana slugs.
After an extensive investigation, it became apparent that the majority of the information that Ms. Triplett gave the officers was not in fact true.
University of California, Santa Cruz
