Following a disturbance call, Ashley Lewis, 27, of Milton is facing charges of battery and resisting a sheriff’s deputy along with trespassing in an incident last week.
According to an arrest report with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, Lewis became irate after a sheriff’s deputy responded to a disturbance call at the residence of her grandmother. While being questioned by the responding deputy, Lewis allegedly began to yell and curse at the deputy and became combative when being handcuffed.
The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, began after Lewis went to her grandmother’s residence and began beating on the back and front door of the home. In the report, Lewis’s grandmother reported her granddaughter had trespassed on the property earlier in the week. While on the property, Lewis was also cursing at her brother who lived at the residence.
In the report, Lewis had also got into a physical altercation with her brother’s girlfriend prior to the deputy’s arrival on scene, the grandmother said.
Lewis’s grandmother told the deputy she wished to pursue trespassing charges on Lewis. Lewis’s brother corroborated his grandmother’s story stating his sister arrived at the residence uninvited and began to bang on the doors and the windows outside. The brother also told police his sister and his girlfriend also began pushing each other and his girlfriends left before the altercation escalated.
Upon talking with Lewis, who was found at the property with a small amount of dried blood on lip and chest, the deputy said Lewis said she had ran into a tree. While being interviewed, Lewis began to scream profanities at her family. In the interview, Lewis told the deputy she had never been on the property. According to the report, Lewis continued to yell at her grandmother and the deputy and refused to answer any questions.
As the deputy began to handcuff Lewis, due to her demeanor and the safety of those on the property, Lewis began to scream.
According to the report, Lewis screamed “If I’m going to catch a charge, I’m going to make it worthwhile and fight you.”
Before the deputy could secure the handcuffs, Lewis reportedly turned around kicked the deputy’s lower leg. Lewis then used her shoulder to push the deputy away. In the report, the deputy performed a takedown maneuver, in which she landed in the pavement and received several cuts, bruises and lacerations on her head and upper body. After this maneuver, Lewis no longer resisted arrest and a EMS unit was called to the scene.
Lewis was then taken to the Santa Rosa Medical Center, when she was later released against medical advice, the report said. She would later be arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and trespassing. Lewis also told authorities, she had nowhere else to go and had been sleeping in the woods for the past few days.
Lewis currently remains in custody at the Santa Rosa County Jail with a $10,500 bond.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Milton woman charged with assaulting deputy