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Re: Woman accused of hitting toy store customer with Legos box
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Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:21:48 GMT
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wow I didn't know a box of Lego counted as a deadly weapon ;)
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James Stacey
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"Will Middelaer" <betamale@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:HpxwL9.AL7@lugnet.com...
> Woman arrested in toy store melee
>
> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/14/BAGD03N1RO1.DTL
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> A woman was arrested outside a popular Berkeley toy store Thursday after she hit
> a customer in the face with a box of Legos, shoved a second shopper and kicked a
> third, police said Saturday.
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> Berkeley Police Officer Kevin Schofield said officers caught up with the woman,
> whom they identified as Tonita Wiemels, 39, after she locked herself in her car
> outside Mr. Mopps' Children's Books and Toys at 1405 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
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> Wiemels ignored numerous police demands that she get out of the car, a 1995 Ford
> Taurus, Schofield said.
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> She tried to drive away, hitting one officer in the leg with the car, and
> endangered two others by steering toward them, he added.
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> Police eventually smashed the driver's-side window, removed Wiemels from the car
> and restrained her in a Velcro-fastened nylon sheet called "The Wrap," Schofield
> said.
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> Police do not know what led to the original altercation inside the store, he
> said.
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> Wiemels was booked into Berkeley city jail on two felony counts of assault with
> a deadly weapon, two misdemeanor counts of battery, and failing to yield to an
> officer, Schofield said.
>
>
> ____________
>
> [Boy, some people just shouldn't be allowed out around this time of year.]
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