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Woman charged with threatening cops, nurses
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police said a reportedly drunken woman Saturday wished their wives and nurses trying to treat her would be raped.
Deanna Little, 43, of Sunnybrook Drive, was arraigned Monday in municipal court on charges of operating a motor vehicle while impaired, obstructing official business and disorderly conduct after she was spotted driving erratically about 4:40 p.m. on Canfield Road.
Court records show she was to have a trial Wednesday in municipal court on a previous OVI charge from November, as well as a charge of resisting arrest from that same incident.
Reports said officer Anthony Trimble spotted a car she was driving fast and recklessly on Canfield Road. When he tried to pull the car over, however, it continued without stopping, and Trimble lost the car because of heavy traffic at an intersection where reports said other vehicles were blocking his way because they had to get out of the way of the car Little was driving.
A few minutes later, officer John O’Neill spotted the car and managed to get her to pull off the road into a driveway near her home. Reports said Little smelled heavily of alcohol and had trouble talking, but she told O’Neill she had not been drinking.
O’Neill and other officers asked Little to get out of her car so they could perform a field-sobriety test, but she refused and locked the doors from the inside, reports said.
Reports said she ignored several requests to get out of the car but at one point she rolled the window down, so Trimble reached in and unlocked the car. Officers were then able to take her out of the car and she was placed under arrest.
She then began yelling at the officers and reports said she told them: “I hope you all [expletive] die, and I hope your [expletive] wife gets pregnant from being raped.”
Reports said a witness told police Little had been drinking all day and had also taken some pills.
She was taken by an officer to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to be examined because she appeared to be drunk, and she kicked a door in a cruiser, threatened an officer and spit on an officer with the hospital police, reports said.
In the emergency room, she was highly agitated and told the nurses she hoped they got raped, reports said. She was restrained, and a police hold was placed on her. She was taken to the Mahoning County jail but released Sunday on a summons, jail records showed.