Police: Drunk woman fights cops during arrest

A Springfield woman allegedly fought with family members and police after reports that she was wandering Tuesday evening around Springfield Shopping Plaza wearing only her underwear.
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Published July 26, 2014 in the Rutland Herald Police: Drunk woman fights cops during arrest By ERIC FRANCIS CORRESPONDENT WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield woman allegedly fought with family members and police after reports that she was wandering Tuesday evening around Springfield Shopping Plaza wearing only her underwear. Venessa Sarkisian-Kennedy, 28, appeared Wednesday in court after spending the night in jail under a “hold until sober” order. She was released from the White River Junction courthouse Wednesday afternoon on pretrial conditions after she pleaded innocent to two misdemeanor counts of domestic assault as well as to charges of simple assault on a police officer and attempted simple assault on a police officer using bodily fluids. Springfield Police Officer Anthony Leonard said he was dispatched to a report of “a female with blue hair wearing only underwear wandering around the plaza” who “appeared to be impaired by something.” Leonard said when he arrived, he found Sarkisian-Kennedy by the footbridge over Black River and noted that she appeared to be intoxicated and was wearing only a pair of bikini briefs and a cotton tank top. Leonard said Sarkisian-Kennedy was cooperative and accepted his offer of a ride to a relative’s home on Chester Road but less than ten minutes after he left her off there, he was called back. Police received a call that she “was wrecking the apartment” and assaulting family members. Leonard said when he arrived back at the residence, Sarkisian-Kennedy walked to the entrance where he “asked her what was going on, and she began ranting about how her family was all against her and then slammed the front door in my face.” The door failed to latch, so Leonard said he pushed it back open and entered. “As soon as I stepped into the apartment, the defendant turned towards me and advanced in an aggressive manner,” Leonard wrote in his affidavit. “She continued to yell and scream ... I grabbed hold of her arms to prevent her advance and she immediately began to struggle and attempt to pull away from me.” Leonard wrote that he attempted to handcuff Sarkisian-Kennedy while placing her against a refrigerator in the kitchen, but he said she “swung her head at my head” painfully striking him in the ear. “I radioed dispatch to inform them that I had been assaulted,” Leonard wrote, saying that next, he “spun her to the right and took her to the kitchen floor … (where) she began to attempt to kick me with her legs. Officer Dan Deslauriers arrived as back-up and knelt on Sarkisian-Kennedy’s legs while Leonard got her into cuffs and then tried to take her outside to a patrol car down a set of step where, Leonard wrote, “she again swung her head at mine, striking me again in the same location as the first time … with continued yelling and screaming at us.” “She lifted her legs requiring (us) to carry her to my patrol car. She was placed in the rear seat and the in-car camera was turned to monitor her,” Leonard wrote, adding that two family members at the house reported that Sarkisian-Kennedy had punched and kicked them, leaving one with a laceration to the elbow requiring a visit to the Springfield Hospital emergency room for treatment. Back at the police station, Leonard said Sarkisian-Kennedy registered a 0.159 percent blood-alcohol level on a breath test and calmed down until she was handed a citation and told she would be taken to the jail until sober. “She became more uncooperative and resistant” and had to be placed in leg shackles for the ride, Leonard wrote, adding that once they reached the jail, “as she was being brought from the patrol car to the booking room (she) lunged at Officer Jennifer Hutchins and spat in her face.”