Drunken woman Rhonda Lyons spit on arresting officer, police say
Suspect was stumbling alongside busy roadway, according to report
Updated: 11:50 AM EST Feb 11, 2013
Rhonda Lyons is accused of spitting on the police officer who tried to arrest her for disorderly intoxication.
A woman spit on the police officer who arrested her for allegedly being drunk and causing a disturbance in Fort Pierce on Friday night, according to a report.Rhonda Lyons, 46, was "stumbling in a drunken manner" along U.S. Highway 1 after 10 p.m. Friday, a Fort Pierce police report said.MUGSHOTS: Have You Seen Death Row's Female Faces?That's when two officers said they saw her "stumbling into traffic" and asked her to sit down on the grass near the sidewalk.When the officers asked for her name and address, Lyons "became very uncooperative and began yelling and cursing at us," the report said. She also gave three different last names.The officers then tried to put her in handcuffs, at which point Lyons started "jerking her hands away and started swinging her arms and hands toward" the officers, according to the report.And when she was put inside the patrol car, "she began kicking the glass," before she eventually started spitting on one of the officers.Lyons continued to kick, scream and curse at the officers as they drove her to the St. Lucie Conty Jail. She now faces a multitude of charges, and officers wrote in the report that she has several prior battery arrests and is suspected in a burglary in the area that happened Thursday.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. —
A woman spit on the police officer who arrested her for allegedly being drunk and causing a disturbance in Fort Pierce on Friday night, according to a report.
Rhonda Lyons, 46, was "stumbling in a drunken manner" along U.S. Highway 1 after 10 p.m. Friday, a Fort Pierce police report said.
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That's when two officers said they saw her "stumbling into traffic" and asked her to sit down on the grass near the sidewalk.
When the officers asked for her name and address, Lyons "became very uncooperative and began yelling and cursing at us," the report said. She also gave three different last names.
The officers then tried to put her in handcuffs, at which point Lyons started "jerking her hands away and started swinging her arms and hands toward" the officers, according to the report.
And when she was put inside the patrol car, "she began kicking the glass," before she eventually started spitting on one of the officers.
Lyons continued to kick, scream and curse at the officers as they drove her to the St. Lucie Conty Jail. She now faces a multitude of charges, and officers wrote in the report that she has several prior battery arrests and is suspected in a burglary in the area that happened Thursday.