A 24-year-old Scranton woman faces charges after kicking and spitting on officers in the city Sunday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers dispatched to 540 N. Cameron Ave. around 12:25 p.m. for the report of a domestic disturbance between a male and female encountered Kenneth Miller \u2014 who had scuff and dirt marks on his clothing and red scratch marks on his neck \u2014 outside in the yard, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Miller told officers that his girlfriend, Kierra Smith, attacked him and threw a brick through the window of his truck.<\/p>\n
Miller\u2014 who had a bloody lip \u2014 told officers that Smith, who was intoxicated, struck him in the face multiple times, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Police spotted Smith inside the home holding an infant with another child nearby, police said.<\/p>\n
When Smith stepped outside the residence, officers detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from her, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Smith told officers she had been fighting with Miller since the night before and had locked him out.<\/p>\n
She called 911 when Miller attempted to kick the door down. She admitted to losing control because of how mad she was at him, officers said.<\/p>\n
As police were escorting Smith to a patrol vehicle, she kicked Patrolman Nicholas Ivanoff and attempted to get away before continuing to kick Ivanoff and Patrolman\u00a0Roberto Martinez, while yelling at them, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Smith also threatened emergency medical services workers, stating she would punch them in the face if they touched her, police said.<\/p>\n
Smith resisted as officers attempted to load her into a patrol vehicle and kicked Patrolman Donald Hofsommer, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Additionally, she spit in Ivanoff\u2019s face as several officers placed her in a prisoner transport van, police said.<\/p>\n
Police charged Smith, 540 N. Cameron Ave., with aggravated assault, assault of a police officer, resisting arrest, simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment. Smith was jailed on $10,000 bail Sunday but has since been released, according to court paperwork.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 11 at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old Scranton woman faces charges after kicking and spitting on officers in the city Sunday afternoon, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-277726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}