By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
A Tacoma lady has been charged with second-degree assault after she allegedly raised a knife towards a Lewis County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy on Thursday.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, Deputy Sam Schouten had been dispatched to an handle on U.S. Freeway 12 the morning of April 29 concerning a disabled automobile.
When he arrived, a girl later recognized as Tara C. Shane “gave the impression to be burning two cellphones and a pill on a propane range on the facet of the street.”
The reporting celebration acknowledged that Shane “had tried to get into his automobile and tried to get ahold of his keys,” in response to court docket paperwork.
Schouten reported that whereas he and Shane have been talking, Shane “was agitated” and allegedly “returned to her automobile and obtained a big jagged knife, grasped it with a fist, turned towards Deputy Schouten and started elevating it roughly waist-high when Deputy Schouten needed to lunge at Shane to disarm and arrest her,” in response to court docket paperwork.
The unique reporting celebration witnessed the incident, in response to court docket paperwork, and each he and Schouten reported that “Shane was two to a few toes from Deputy Schouten when she raised the knife towards him” and “given the circumstances, he (Schouten) had no alternative to retreat.”
Neither Shane or Schouten reported accidents.
Shane was booked into the Lewis County Jail at roughly 11:20 a.m. on April 29.
Shane reportedly advised protection legal professional Rachael Tiller that she didn’t want to be represented by an legal professional throughout her April 30 preliminary look in Lewis County Superior Court docket.
Whereas Shane advised Decide Joely O’Rourke that she understood the cost — second-degree assault — Shane questioned the validity of the case towards her, requesting “footage from her automobile” and stating that the court docket paperwork solely detailed “what the opinion of the officer was.”
Attributable to Shane’s use of profanity in her argument towards the costs and the arresting deputy and repeated insistences that O’Rourke was “too younger to be a choose,” Shane was present in contempt of court docket and her preliminary listening to was rescheduled for Monday, Might 3.
Whereas in contempt of court docket, Shane could be held for a most of 30 days with no bail.
