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WeddingPhotographer ArrestedAfter Sleeping WithGuest, PeeingonTreeAndThreateningCops
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By Rachel Desantis - NY Daily News
One Texas wed- ding photogra- pher’s services were far from picture-perfect.
Katie Mehta was hired to capture a couple’s big day on Saturday, but instead man- aged to capture the attention of police, who arrested her for public intoxica- tion after she bedded a guest, peed on a tree
and threatened authorities.
Mehta, 26, was booked into the Parker County Jail and charged with public intox- ication and obstruction/retal- iation, online records show. The photogra- pher was snap- ping photos at a wedding cele- bration in Weatherford, Texas, when members of the wedding party alerted an off- duty sheriff’s
deputy working security that Mehta had been found having sex with a male guest, according to an arrest report acquired by the Daily News.
She was report- edly warned to knock off the inappropriate behavior, but instead of cool- ing down, she headed outside and began yelling.
When she was
asked to leave, Mehta allegedly made her way to a nearby tree and urinated on it.
Responding offi- cers reportedly noticed that she reeked of alco- hol, and found a bottle of pre- scription Alprazolam, used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, in her jacket.
Mehta was arrested for pub- lic drinking, and
allegedly spewed threat- ening messages of violence to the officers as they hauled her away in a patrol car.
“Y’alls’ daugh- ters are dead. Y’all families will be dead by Christmas,” she reportedly screamed. “My dad is going to find out about this, and y’all are (expletive) dead. D-E-A-D.”
She was
released from jail Sunday after posting $10,738 bond.
Mehta works professionally as both a photogra- pher and model under the name Max McIntyre. Her Instagram account has more than 14,000 follow- ers.
Meanwhile, her sister told WFAA that Mehta believes her drinks were unknowingly spiked at the wedding.
"She said she went outside, and she said these two men tried to approach her and do inap- propriate things,” the sister said. “And she said she was yelling and trying to get help, and things got turned around in a neg- ative way.”
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