Prosecutors charged a Claremont McKenna College professor Monday with filing a false report and insurance fraud in connection with her report of her car being vandalized and spray painted with hate messages.
Kerri Dunn, 39, faces as many as six years in state prison if convicted as charged. She is set to be arraigned May 19 in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Pomona.
"You can't commit a hate crime against yourself,' said Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons. "So we couldn't file a hate crime charge against her.'
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