Man wrongly accused of rape finally released from prison

Mark Weiner wanted to do a good deed by giving a young woman who was walking alone at night a ride home. Unfortunately for Weiner, that young woman was looking to get sympathy from a man she was dating. So as Weiner drove her home, the woman, Chelsea Steiniger, texted her boyfriend, Michael Mills, claiming she had been abducted for sexual purposes.

Steiniger alleged that within a span of 28 minutes, Weiner “tried to get in my pants,” wouldn’t let her out of the car at her mother’s house and then took control of her phone to send threatening texts to Steiniger’s boyfriend. In one of those messages allegedly sent by Weiner, he told Mills: “[S]hes [sic] in my house she said she was cold so IMMa [sic] warm her up.”