San Xavier Beat
August 11, 5:15 a.m.
A woman being investigated for screaming didn’t even try to explain herself to law enforcement—she just wouldn’t stop screaming—so she ended up in jail (where she was left still yelling in a cell), a PCSD report stated.
Deputies were called to a west-side trailer park regarding excessive noise—screaming—coming from inside the subject’s trailer. When deputies approached her outside her residence, she immediately began screaming at them (unintelligible utterances mixed with nonsensical things, such as a repeated statement about “a man on the phone!”).
She wouldn’t give deputies her name or explain why she was screaming—she just kept on screaming—even when deputies said they needed to arrest her for disturbing the peace and offered to let her put shoes on and lock her house before they took her away.
Eventually deputies simply had to drag her, literally kicking and screaming (and barefoot), to their patrol car and then jail.
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2016.
Indiscriminate and spontaneous screaming is just a taste of things to come after the November elections – no matter who wins.
Seems like she should have been taken to a mental hospital.
‘cept they don’t really have those mental hospitals anymore. Now it’s just jail.
I thought she sounded like she needed emotional and psychological help rather than public humiliation and arrest as well. The thing is, I don’t know that the mental health system is a whole lot better than jail. (Remember the suicides at Sierra Tucson?) Well, anyway, I hope she has a peaceful and healthy future and wish her well.
We are applalled at the appearance and the manner in which this story was presented. Other than for reader entertainment why publish such an explication when one can reduce this story to a discription of someone who is screaming to the world ‘ please I need help, I am in pain.’ It is neither humorous nor muckraking especially in the light of any useful suggestions on the writer’s part.