Woman indicted for making false rape claims against Cleveland police officer

Kimberly Minor
Kimberly Minor

A 30-year-old woman who reported that she was raped by a Cleveland police officer at a cabin in Gatlinburg has been indicted for making a false report.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation presented evidence to the Bradley County Grand Jury this morning and returned a true bill against Kimberly Minor, according to a news release.

photo Kimberly Minor

Minor was arrested this afternoon and her bond was set at $5,000.

On Aug 6., Minor went to SkyRidge Medical Center and reported that Officer Carl Walls, a man she had been romantic with for two months, had forced her to have sex with him at a cabin on July 31.

Minor told the Times Free Press that she had joined Walls at the cabin during a boy's weekend with three other officers on the same patrol shift.

Both Walls and Officer Chad Nave, who are both married, are under an internal affairs investigation to see whether the officers broke department policy during their extramarital affairs.

Walls and Nave were seeing women they had met while on duty. Minor produced text messages that showed Walls was stopping by her home in the morning when he was on duty to have sex with her.

Walls admitted he had been in a relationship with Minor but his attorney said he had confessed the relationship to his wife and was working on his marriage.

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