A dispute over doggy doo resulted in a weapon being drawn and deputies responding multiple times to handle the problem.
A South Point resident called 911 to report that he’d come home and caught his neighbor in his yard with her dog. The man said the dog had popped a squat and doing his business. When he complained the neighbor ran into the house calling for her mom. The mom then came out and yelled at him that he didn’t own his property, he was a squatter, and that living there was felony.
The man said the woman had threatened him and his wife that they were not allowed in their side yard and, at one point, brandished a gun.
When deputies investigated, they found multiple piles of feces in the side yard. In fact, the officer counted nearly a dozen. He tried to contact the neighbors, but no one came to the door. The deputy noted that two vehicles were in the drive. The officer took pictures of the piles of dog feces and made a report.
A few days later, officers served the neighbor with a protection order barring her from the man’s property and from threatening him, but she refused to sign it.
The next day, the resident called officers back to his home. He said he’d had a lawn care worker pick up all the dog poo and installed a trail camera to monitor his yard. The man said he’d captured the neighbor’s daughter bringing the dog into his yard to go potty multiple times.
He explained that the woman believed the side yard belonged to her and had threatened to shoot him if he went in it.
When a deputy went to speak to the woman, she said the protection order wasn’t valid because she didn’t sign it. Officers explained it was valid the moment the deputy served it. The woman claimed it wasn’t valid because she was in the witness protection program. Officers explained that she had to follow the order or face going to jail.
The next day, officers responded back to the home after a report that the neighbor was spraying water on the resident’s vehicle and home and yelling at him from the driveway. When officers arrived, they found her standing in the driveway and noted that the resident’s vehicles and porch were covered in water.
When officers asked if she’d sprayed the house, the woman said she had. She told them she had no choice because the man had “sabotaged her hose, and she had no other way to defend herself.”
The resident showed officers a video of the woman and her daughter spraying the house and yelling, “Call the Sheriff!”
Officers arrested the woman for violating the protection order and noted she was shocked. They asked the woman if she had any weapons, and she pulled a loaded .38 Smith & Wesson from her bra and tried to hand it to her daughter. The deputy intercepted and took the gun into evidence. Police booked Vicki Price into the Lawrence County Jail for violating a protection order.
