An investigation into a stabbing reported to have occurred in downtown State College has been turned over to Pennsylvania State Police at Milton, State College Police said Friday.

"It has been turned over to them because, to the best of our knowledge, the stabbing occurred in their jurisdiction," State College Police Capt. Dana Leonard said.

It was initially reported Sept. 13 that a Mifflinburg man said he and his wife arrived in State College at about 11:15 p.m. Sept. 12 to help a friend who had vehicle trouble and needed assistance in one of the downtown parking lots, police said.

Police said the man told them he later exited his vehicle around the area of the 400 block of East College Avenue and was then attacked somewhere between the 400 block of East College Avenue and the intersection of East Beaver Avenue and Locust Lane.

The man said he was walking when he was hit in the head and stabbed three times, police said.

Police said the man told them he then waved down his wife, who drove him to the Mount Nittany Medical Center for medical attention.

In a Sept. 15 news release, police confirmed that although circumstances indicated the man was stabbed, the incident did not occur in State College or even in Centre County.

Leonard said police will charge the man with filing a false report after state police complete their investigation.

"In a case like this, there are first responders and second responders and so on. It causes the community great alarm," Leonard said.

Leonard said police in Milton have not arrested the man.

The criminal supervisor at Pennsylvania State Police at Milton could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday.