BELLEVUE, Wash. — Bellevue police are now recommending charges against the woman who falsely accused Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch of assault and property destruction last August.
Detectives believe 31-year-old Jammie L. Ficarelli of Everett gave false and misleading information to officers, when she told them Lynch punched her in the face, chipping her tooth and bruising her face. Ficarelli also told police Lynch ripped a strap off her designer purse.
Police told KIRO 7 their investigation indicates Ficarelli was so drunk, she mistook a man she’d just met for Lynch, and she injured herself by falling on a sidewalk.
Their investigation also proves Lynch could not have been with Ficarelli when she accused him of assault.
Police say it all started when Ficarelli was leaving the Blue Martini bar at 2:30 a.m Aug. 10. They say she met a man who lives in the Bravern apartments above the bar. Police say the man, whom she mistook for Marshawn Lynch--asked her up to his seventh-floor apartment, where they drank heavily.
The man later told police Ficarelli had wild mood swings, and when he tried to get her to leave, a property security guard took notice. According to police probable cause documents, the guard told police:
"The female appeared very intoxicated. She was swaying back and forth, had slurred speech, and smelled like alcohol."
The guard said the woman chased the man near the elevators. The guard told the man to go back to his apartment, then—according to documents, he told police:
"The female then tipped over and fell onto her right side onto the paved walkway in front of one of the Bravern businesses. (The security guard) observed the right side of the female's head hit the paved sidewalk."
Police say the injuries Ficarelli got falling down were later blamed on Lynch. According to documents, “(The guard) observed a mark/bruise on the right side of the female's face under her eye. The female told him that she got the mark when she fell.”
Meanwhile, on the same night, several blocks away, the Seahawks were staying at the Bellevue Hilton. An off-duty state trooper, providing security for the Seahawks told Bellevue detectives he watched Lynch go to his room on the seventh floor that night, shut the door, and was there until morning.
Making false reports or giving misleading information to an officer carries a maximum penalty of a year in prison and a $5000 fine.
KIRO 7 found Ficarelli’s Everett apartment Thursday, where a man identifying himself as her boyfriend was moving her belongings into a moving truck, claiming she was facing death threats. He told KIRO 7 Ficarelli had no comment.
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