LONDON, Ky. (LEX 18) \u2014 A woman in London was charged with assault on a police officer after she refused to leave a store and allegedly began to hit and threaten deputies as they arrested her on Aug. 16, officials report. <\/p>\n
The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office detailed that at around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 16, deputies were called to a business in London regarding an individual who reportedly refused to leave. Upon arrival, deputies learned that a woman, identified as 48-year-old Shawna Lemaster, was allegedly being violent and she refused to leave. <\/p>\n
When deputies entered the business, they found Lemaster “causing self harm to her nose using tweezers.” Officials said that Lemaster “refused to cooperate” and allegedly kicked and punched a deputy while they attempted to apprehend her. Lemaster also allegedly threatened a deputy as they arrested her.<\/p>\n
Officials reported that Lemaster has been charged with third-degree assault (police officer is victim); second-degree terroristic threatening; and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Ky. (LEX 18) \u2014 A woman in London was charged with assault on a police officer after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[34744,748,393,4884,34840,257,16,15,3137],"class_list":{"0":"post-354940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ky","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051515617265333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}