Officers arrested a woman after a report that she had threatened a child riding an ATV in the road with a gun.
Just after 10 am, a worried dad called 9-1-1 to say his child was riding an ATV on Township Road 208 when a female neighbor threatened him with a gun.
The boy said the woman held a silver gun in one hand and recorded the incident with her phone in the other. The dad told police he feared the neighbor was going to end up shooting someone.
Lawrence County Deputies went to the woman’s house, which was surrounded by a tall black fence and gate. They blew their horn to get her attention, and she came out to inform them she didn’t want to speak to anyone.
She told officers the neighbors wanted to murder her, the sheriff was in on it, and she didn’t want to speak with anyone but the FBI.
Eventually, she calmed down and admitted to confronting the boy from her driveway, but denied she’d ever pointed a weapon at him. Officers said she got very agitated and began making claims about the neighbors.
While officers were waiting for a supervisor and interviewing other witnesses, the woman began recording them on her phone and yelling at them.
Police took her into custody for menacing, secured her house, and took her to the Lawrence County Jail.
While they were in the process of booking the woman into the jail, another inmate informed them she couldn’t be placed in her cell because she’d just gotten a protection order against the woman for threatening to shoot her.
