A Brown County woman has been charged with a felony and two misdemeanors after police say they found her walking intoxicated on Salt Creek Road and arrested her on a warrant; then, she threatened a jailer while being booked in.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Jimmy Green stopped his police car just after midnight on Aug. 23 in the 700 block of Salt Creek Road after he saw the woman, Jesse Hall, 35, of Forest Hills, according to a probable cause affidavit by Deputy Colton Magner.
Green told Magner that Hall was walking north in the northbound lane with her back to traffic. She was wearing all black clothing and was barefoot with no flashlight, and was stumbling. The road had blind curves and fog was becoming thick at that time, the affidavit said.
Hall admitted to drinking a “couple of shots.” A breath test showed her blood-alcohol content to be 0.21, more than twice the legal limit.
She told police she was walking because the man she had been drinking with started calling her names and made her feel bad. She said she was trying to get to a friend’s home near the Hamblen Township Volunteer Fire Department, the affidavit said.
Because of her blood-alcohol content, and because it was dark and foggy, Magner asked Green to take Hall back to her home at Forest Hills Apartments to finish dealing with the situation and check on her children.
While they were en route, dispatch reported that Hall was wanted out of Johnson County. Green stopped at NAPA Auto Parts on State Road 46 East so Magner could place her under arrest.
After being told she was being arrested on the warrant, Hall allegedly became louder and acted more belligerent. She was asked to stop yelling or she would be charged with disorderly conduct, but Magner reported she continued to yell expletives at both officers.
Once at the jail, Hall’s “belligerent behavior” continued toward the officers and jailers there. When a female jailer came to search her, she called her an expletive and threatened to beat her up.
Due to her behavior, Hall was kept in handcuffs until she was booked in, the affidavit said.
She was charged Aug. 23 with intimidation, a Level 6 felony; and disorderly conduct and public intoxication, both Class B misdemeanors.
