Katherine Bale (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mountain Home woman has picked up multiple charges for fighting with police, including kicking one in the groin, hitting one in the jaw and attempting to bite officers several times. Forty-two-year-old Katherine Elizabeth Bale is facing seven charges for the Wednesday night incident.
According to information from the Mountain Home Police Department and Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, police officers were called to a residence on Indian Circle for a physical domestic. When the first officer arrived, a woman came out of a house yelling at the officer. He asked if she was the one who called 911. She said she would never call 911.
The officer made contact with the next door neighbor who said the female who was yelling at the officer was who she called 911 about. She and a male were fighting, but the male left prior to police arriving.
As the officer went back to talk to Bale, she told him, “If you don’t want to get punched in the face, I suggest you leave my property!” A second officer arrived and Bale was yelling at them from her open front door. As the officers stepped on her front porch, she charged at them. They took her to the ground and she put her hands under her body to keep from being handcuffed. They were able to get her cuffed, but she started to kick, striking one of the officers in the groin.
The officers were able to pin Bale to the ground while they waited on a third officer to bring ankle restraints. While she was pinned, Bale said she was going to “castrate” the officers, and they “would be sorry.”
Once they got Bale in ankle restraints, she curled up in a ball and refused to walk, so the officers had to carry her to the patrol unit. While being carried, she repeatedly tried to bite the officers.
Once they arrived at the Baxter County Detention Center, Bale had gotten herself tangled up in the seatbelts. As one of the officers attempted to get her untangled, she kicked him in the head.
Once they got her into the jail, they took off the handcuffs, and she struck one of the jailers in the jaw. It took several officers to hold her down to get her into restraint chair. They also had to put a spit mask on her because she was spitting on jailers.
Bale is facing three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer which are felonies. She is also facing misdemeanor charges of terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, impairing the operations of a vital public facility and disorderly conduct. Her bond is set at $15,000.
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