Visits To Police Post Land Woman In Jail

Aug. 30, 2016

Two early morning visits to a state police post landed a woman in jail.

The 22-year-old Ellsworth woman first appeared in the state police parking lot on Fourteenth Street early Saturday morning, says Traverse City Police Chief Jeff O’Brien.

Officers received a report of an incoherent woman and arrived to find the woman asleep in a patrol car. They took her to Munson Medical Center for a mental health evaluation.

The woman returned to the state police lot the following morning. This time when police were called at 3:44am, officers found the woman in the parking lot of the Speedway gas station nearby after she vandalized two patrol cars by ripping off windshield wipers.

O’Brien says it's unknown what motivated the woman. She was arrested for malicious destruction of property and resisting arrest.

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