Woman behind bars for shooting at man and falsely accusing him of rape: Police

A South Florida woman is facing charges of armed robbery and attempted murder after police said she shot at a man and falsely accused him of rape.

Police were called on Jan. 6 to a warehouse parking lot in the area of West 18th Street and Fourth Avenue in Hialeah, where 22-year-old Valerie Meza-Faublack of Hollywood claimed a man fired shots at her after trying to rape her.

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Meza-Faublack claimed to police that after she met the man outside her work, he drove her to the parking lot, where he armed himself with a gun and forcibly removed her clothes and raped her, an arrest report stated.

Surveillance video shows her talking to police when they responded. They brought Meza-Faublack to a rape treatment center to get a rape kit test, but she refused.

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Investigators later spoke to the man, who said Meza-Faublack asked him to leave with her. When they were inside the car, they did not have sex. Meza-Faublack allegedly took his gun and opened fire several times. The man managed to escape.

Police said surveillance video contradicted Meza-Faublack's statements and showed her shooting into the victim's vehicle. She fired at him 15 times, investigators said.

Meza-Faublack has a criminal history and was out on probation for an unrelated case where she faces charges of acting as a real estate broker without a license, organized fraud and grand theft.