Woman arraigned for resisting 7 officers during arrest

May 28, 2015 at 12:02a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Breanna Haynes admitted at her arraignment in municipal court Wednesday that she resisted arrest the day before.

Seven officers were called to handle her and had to use leg shackles and strap her down in a stretcher in an ambulance to be taken to the hospital.

But no, she told a judge, her conduct was not “causing an inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another,” or disorderly conduct – despite the fact she also damaged the door of a police cruiser.

“Maybe I’m not guilty because [police] didn’t have a reason to arrest me,” she said at her arraignment before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after she was taken into custody about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday at a home in the 800 block of East Florida Avenue.

She originally pleaded guilty to the resisting-arrest charge but changed her plea to not guilty after Judge Kobly explained what rights she was giving up by pleading guilty and that she could be sentenced to 90 days in the Mahoning County jail. She was adamant that she was not guilty of disorderly conduct.

Police were called to the home by Haynes’ father, who said in a police report his daughter was released from a West Virginia jail after serving a 30-day sentence and after returning to her Scott Street home, found it had been broken into and unlivable.

Reports said the father told police he offered Haynes the use of his home until she could get hers fixed up, but he wanted her gone from his property because she was moving her things into his house and also fought with a relative, reports said.

When officers asked Haynes to leave she refused despite several requests and was placed under arrest after she told police she was going inside to get her things. But what she really did was call 911, reports said, so officers tried to take her into custody on a charge of misusing 911.

Reports said Haynes resisted efforts to handcuff her and when she was put in a cruiser, she kicked the back seat, window and door, damaging the door.

A patrol supervisor was called and the shift supervisor also responded to the scene, along with two plainclothes officers from the vice squad and another cruiser to try and get her to calm down before she was placed in the shackles, reports said.

Haynes was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where she was examined because of the fight she was in before police arrived and then taken to the jail.

At the jail, four corrections officers were needed to try to restrain her, and she was sprayed with pepper spray before she calmed down, reports said.