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A woman swore she wasn’t the person a deputy was looking for, but that turned out to not quite be true March 3.

Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Seth Nichols said he went to a house on Little Notchey Creek Road trying to locate Jessica Murray, who had a warrant for violating her parole.

Nichols said when he knocked on the door, a woman answered and he told her he was looking for Murray. The woman asked why and Nichols asked if she was there. The woman said she wasn’t there and asked again why he was looking for her.

Nichols told her he had a warrant for her arrest and asked who she was. The woman said she was Jessica’s sister. Nichols asked her if she had any identification on her and she said no, that it had been stolen.

He asked her what her Social Security number was and she said she didn’t remember. Nichols said she was nervous and he believed she was lying about who she was, but at the time he didn’t have any access to finding a picture of Murray. He told her if she was actually Murray, she’d be in trouble for attempting to avoid arrest.

She assured him she was the sister and not Murray.

Nichols said later, when he was able to access a database, he found a picture of Murray and it was indeed the woman he’d been talking to.

Nichols went back to the house, but the gate had been closed and locked and he couldn’t get in.

Murray, 40, is facing a charge of criminal impersonation.

michael.thomason@advocateanddemocrat.com