OC Couple Deny Scheme to Frame Woman on Drug and Weapons Charges

Two Laguna Hills residents pleaded not guilty today to planting weapons and drugs in a woman's truck in order to frame her.

Jennifer Michele Beale, 37, and Kevin Brown, 42, are accused of planting a BB gun, a 12-inch hunting knife and methamphetamine in the bed of a truck belonging to a 40-year-old woman they know.

The next morning at 5:50 a.m., Beale sent an email to the Orange County Crime Stoppers organization to falsely report she saw the woman waving a gun around during an argument, Nichols alleged

A few hours later, she allegedly called 911 and filed another bogus report alleging she saw the woman -- whose name was withheld -- waving a gun during an argument.

Orange County sheriff's investigators found the gun and drugs in the victim's truck when they went to her home, but she recognized the sunglass case packed with methamphetamine as allegedly belonging to Beale and investigators turned their focus to the two defendants, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

The two face felony charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, false imprisonment and making a false report, and misdemeanor counts of making a false report of emergency and altering evidence.

According to the Orange County District Attorney's office, Brown also faces a sentence-enhancement allegation for having a prior conviction for second-degree burglary in 2010 in Los Angeles County.

Photos Courtesy of the Orange County District Attorney's Office