A grand jury has indicted an Arizona woman on seven felony charges related to a “paternity scheme” in which she allegedly faked a pregnancy with “The Bachelor” Season 26 star Clayton Echard.

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced the indictment of Laura Michelle Owens on Tuesday, saying the grand jury had indicted her on perjury, forgery, tampering with evidence and carrying out a fraudulent scheme between May 2023 and June 2024.

Owens, who once filed a lawsuit seeking child support from Echard before saying she’d had a miscarriage, is accused of altering an ultrasound image, fabricating a pregnancy video and lying multiple times under oath.

Echard posted an elated video to social media when the news broke.

“Justice is finally served,” he said, adding, “This nightmare is over. I am so ready to not have to think about this anymore. ... I have not been this happy. This is a weight of two years lifted off my shoulders. It feels good.”

Owens’ indictment comes nearly a year after she lost her paternity lawsuit against him, in which she claimed he’d fathered her unborn twins after a one-night stand. Echard maintains that the two did not have sexual intercourse.

The judge in the case said Owens’ complaint was “premature at best. At worst, however, fraudulent and made to incite communication, a relationship, or both, with Echard.”

The court also supported Echard’s lawyers’ claims that Owens, the daughter of San Francisco Bay Area radio legend Ronn Owens, has attempted such a scheme before, with the judge saying she “has a pattern of similar, if not identical behavior, and court involvement.”

Owens lost her appeal in the cast last month.

A Medium account that appears to belong to Owens posted a lengthy address in September saying that Echard’s supporters “distorted my genuine efforts to find a way forward with the pregnancy, twisting it into a narrative that I was trying to ‘extort’ him into a relationship.”

The paternity lawsuit, the post said, “would force Echard to come up with his own idea of a schedule, see that the court encouraged joint custody so kids could have both parents in their lives even if the relationship between those parents didn’t work out, and also compel him to take a prenatal paternity test.”