- November 17, 2024
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A 30-year-old woman bit a Flagler Beach Police Department officer who tried to arrest her for causing a disturbance outside of Poor Walt’s Bar in Flagler Beach, according to a charging affidavit.
The police officer responded to reports of an intoxicated woman causing a disturbance at the bar, at 312 East State Road 100, at about 10:30 p.m. April 30.
She soon saw a woman who matched the suspect’s description, but the woman — Lisa Danielle Tyson, a Palm Coast resident with previous arrests on charges driving under the influence, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest — noticed the policewoman’s patrol car and began running toward Finn’s.
The policewoman turned on her emergency lights and told Tyson to stop, but she didn’t.
The policewoman chased after her on foot, “grabbed (Tyson) by the wrist and began escorting her to the exit,” according to the officer’s report.
But Tyson became “began to struggle and kick the doorway with her legs in an attempt to stop me from moving her forward,” the officer wrote, and the officer “used an academy-taught maneuver to take her to the ground.”
Then, the officer wrote, Tyson “leaned forward and bit my forearm and would not let go.”
With the assistance of a nearby cab driver, the officer was able to hold Tyson long enough to handcuff her and put her into a patrol car, where Tyson called her a vulgar slur and kicked the back of the patrol vehicle until the officer shackled her ankles.
Tyson was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and with resisting arrest with violence, and jailed on a combined $3,000 bond.
