CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 41-year-old woman faces felony charges after she admitted to investigators that she fabricated a rape allegation against Parma Heights Police Chief Steve Scharschmidt, according to officials.

Sylvia Davis of Brooklyn came clean about her allegations after state agents confronted her with multiple inconsistencies in her story as well as cellphone records that showed Google searches that included the phrase "can you go to jail for lying about a cop raping you," prosecutors said.

A grand jury handed up an 11-count indictment Thursday charging Davis with extortion, intimidation, tampering with evidence and tampering with records.

She is set for a Nov. 1 arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

"Chief Scharschmidt is an outstanding police officer and it is appalling that this conniving individual would fabricate this story out of sheer greed," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley told cleveland.com.

Scharschmidt said in a phone interview with cleveland.com that the ordeal had been difficult on him, and hoped the charges against Davis send a message that police officers are not targets.

"We endure a lot as police officers. I know what I signed up for and all policeman do," he said. "But not something like this. This was just so wrong on a lot of levels."

Davis could not be reached for comment, and no attorney is listed in court records.

Prosecutors are not sure what motivated Davis to fabricate the allegation. The charge of extortion seems to indicate investigators believe she may have had a financial motivation, but Scharschmidt said Davis never asked him for money.

Davis came forward to Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department investigators on Aug. 15 and filed a written report accusing Scharschmidt of raping her three weeks earlier, on July 26, according to records.

Davis is well-known to the Parma Heights police department, including Scharschmidt. She has previous arrests for petty theft in 2014 and was prosecuted for felony aggravated theft in 2015. She was charged in Parma Municipal Court with misdemeanor counts of falsification and solicitation in September. That case is still pending.

Scharschmidt, a former detective, sergeant and captain in the department who had been appointed as chief a month before, said Davis told investigators that he picked her up in a car while she was walking along a street and told her she owed him a favor from a previous case. She then claimed that Scharschmidt drove her back to his office at the police station and raped her, he said.

The sheriff's department turned the case over to the Ohio Attorney General Office's Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Agents with the bureau interviewed Davis the same day, court records say.

Scharschmidt told investigators that he went to Yorktown Lanes on the night that Davis said the assault occurred. He said his mother fell down and hurt herself, and he and other family members took her to a hospital to get checked out, where they spent much of the evening.

Surveillance video backed up his story, prosecutors said.

As investigators dug further, they found multiple inconsistencies in Davis's version of the events.

The car she described as Scharschmidt's did not match the one he drove, and the sketch that she drew of his office, where she said the rape occurred, was not accurate, prosecutors said.

Agents found the Google search on her cellphone, as well as searches of "can you go to jail for lying to police on a police report" and "Parma Heights sex scandal," prosecutors said.

They confronted her with the evidence and, 13 days after she first reported the rape, she confessed to making it up, prosecutors said.

Scharschmidt, a married father of two adult children, said his family supported him through the allegations. He trusted that the investigation would vindicate him, but it was still trying, he said.

"I was pretty frustrated that she put me through that," Scharschmidt said. "I'm fortunate that BCI worked hard at this and in 13 days got to the truth."

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