With only an open line providing a pinged cellphone location to guide him, a Lakeview Police officer made his way to multiple residences Friday evening before reaching the scene of a physical domestic incident involving two women.
According to the probable cause affidavit, 37-year-old Larinda Rae Mikkelson of Pierce City, Mo. was arrested and faces six charges, while an ambulance team treated the victim’s injuries at the scene.
As the Lakeview officer searched for the location of the altercation, he received backup from two park rangers. As the rangers arrived, they saw a car start up at a residences in the 6000 block of Arkansas Highway 178 and began talking to the driver, later identified as Mikkelson. The Missouri woman reportedly exited the vehicle and ran into the garage. When they got her out of the garage, they observed her hand was bleeding.
Mikkelson appeared to be “very irate and agitated and was not following commands.” She told the officers she did not know where the homeowner was.
The Lakeview officer found the homeowner inside the residence crying, bleeding from her nose and mouth and looking as though she had been beaten. She told the officer Mikkelson had allegedly been drinking all day. A few hours earlier she reportedly started to get mean and agitated. She then reportedly jumped on the victim, hit her about the face, pulled her hair, hit her head on the floor, put her hand in the home owner’s mouth and pulled back before kicking her in the back, side and stomach.
The park rangers allegedly removed a bag containing a brown leafy substance field testing positive for marijuana from Mikkelson’s right front pocket, as she reportedly fought, yelled and screamed. She reportedly told the rangers as she fought with them she had Hep C and HIV.
The victim was advised to seek medical attention by the ambulance crew, but declined.
A search of Mikkelson’s personal items both in the vehicle and in the residence led to drug paraphernalia and drug residue testing positive for methamphetamine.
Mikkelson has been charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, second-degree battery, possession of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia and fleeing.
Jail records indicate her bond was set at $10,000.
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