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Naked Woman Drove Golf Cart Through Armed Standoff In Dunedin, Deputy Says
DUNEDIN, Fla. (WFLA) — Deputies in Pinellas County had plenty on their hands Sunday morning while they tried to diffuse a standoff with an armed teenager on a rooftop.
According to an arrest affidavit, a naked woman who had nothing to do with the sit- uation made things even hard- er when she decided to drive a golf cart into the crime scene in Dunedin.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s
Office says it set up a perimeter outside a home on Michigan Boulevard near Madeira Avenue Sunday after 18- year-old Myles Abbott fled deputies, climbed
onto the roof of a home and point- ed a gun at them. That started a standoff that would last around six hours.
According to the affidavit, 28-year-
old Jessica Elisabeth Smith of Boston, Massachusetts, drove a golf cart by several marked sheriff’s office vehicles that were at the scene and
ignored a deputy’s com- mands to leave as she approached the house where the armed teenager was on the roof.
The affidavit says
her “actions and inability to follow directions put multiple deputies at risk for poten- tially getting shot at.” Deputies say they eventually managed to get her out of the golf cart and hand- cuffed her.
“The defendant had a distinct odor of an alco- holic beverage coming from her person, and she was completely nude,” the affi- davit said.
Smith now faces a charge for resisting an offi- cer without vio- lence.
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