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Woman arraigned for disturbance in Mahoning juvenile court
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
A woman who police reports said was talking in vulgar language during a hearing in Mahoning County Juvenile Court on Wednesday was arraigned on three misdemeanor charges Friday in municipal court.
Judge Elizabeth Kobly of Youngstown Municipal Court gave Tamika Butler, 35, no address listed, a $2,500 bond on charges of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing.
Reports said Butler head- butted a deputy from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office in the chest while she was in a holding cell in the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Reports said deputies were called to a magistrate’s courtroom to keep an eye on Butler, who had been disruptive in court before with loud talking and vulgar language.
Reports said she was there for a hearing in regard to her children at the juvenile facility.
Deputies outside could hear Butler swearing and talking loudly and ordered her out of the courtroom, reports said.
In a hallway, she still was loud and disruptive, and deputies ordered her to leave the building. When she refused, she was told she would be arrested for disorderly conduct, but she would not allow a deputy to handcuff her until she was warned an electronic stun gun would be used on her, reports said.
Butler then was taken to a holding cell in the building, but she continued making vulgar statements, reports said. When she was in the cell, one of the deputies noticed she still had her purse. He went inside the cell to see if he could get the purse from her without removing her handcuffs.
Butler was seated at the time, and when the deputy came in, reports said she stood up and head butted the deputy in the chest. Another deputy came in and they managed to get her purse without removing the handcuffs, reports said.
She was taken then to the Mahoning County jail.
The charges she faces are all misdemeanors carrying maximum jail terms of 90 days.
She will have a preliminary hearing next week.