BOSTON, March 4, 2013—A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a former MBTA bus driver of lying to MBTA Transit Police by saying she’d been shot at by an unknown assailant five years ago, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

Jurors convicted NANCY L. PARKER (D.O.B. 10/12/58) of misleading an investigator, a felony under the state’s witness intimidation statute, for the 2007 incident aboard an MBTA bus. She faces up to 10 years behind bars when she is sentenced later this week.

Assistant District Attorney David McGowan proved during last week’s trial that Parker deliberately misled Transit Police detectives when she said a passenger pulled a gun and shot at her three times after he boarded her inbound Route 111 bus in Chelsea on the afternoon of Oct. 2, 2007.

McGowan introduced evidence and testimony regarding Parker’s claims that a stranger pulled a gun, demanded her money, and shot at her once as she sat in her seat and three more times after she tried to rush past him and he pushed her to the ground, where he took her wallet and fled.

Parker also showed investigators her uniform jacket, which had three holes in it. Though she described them as bullet holes, she suffered no injuries from the shooting she described. She did, however, leave work and file a worker’s compensation claim: that claim amounted to $7750.87, plus an additional $2063.07 in payments to medical providers.

Parker was first charged in Chelsea District Court on April 30, 2009. A district court judge dismissed the case over prosecutors’ objections in 2010, but the Suffolk County Grand Jury returned indictments charging her with misleading an investigator, worker’s compensation fraud, and filing a false police report. Jurors acquitted Parker of the latter two indictments.

Parker was represented at trial by attorneys Jennifer O’Brian and Thomas Mixon. Judge Patrick Brady will sentence her on March 6 at 2:00 p.m.

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