An Ocala woman was arrested Monday after two verbal altercations at her former place of employment.
When deputies arrived at Customer Driven Staffing at 2125 SW Hwy. 484, a sheriff’s lieutenant already had the first verbal altercation under control. A woman at the business said that she didn’t want to have the ex-employee, 18-year-old Kendaysha K. Wood, trespassed from the business and she had asked other employees to give her a ride elsewhere.
But a short time later, while deputies were still at the business, an employee called to say that Wood had gotten out of the vehicle a quarter mile from the business. And then she came back to the business and “began causing a disturbance by yelling and cussing,” a sheriff’s office report states.
At that point, the lieutenant started completing a trespass warning and deputies had to tell Wood to stay back from him several times. But she continued to yell and come toward him, the report states.
The lieutenant warned Wood that she could be arrested for obstructing him from doing his job as a law enforcement officer, but she ignored his commands. A short time later, deputies attempted to take Wood into custody but she “immediately began to resist” and pulled away as they tried to put her in handcuffs, the report says, adding that she “stomped” on a deputy’s right foot and attempted to kick him several times.
After deputies eventually Wood into handcuffs, she lunged at the same deputy “in an aggressive manner” and head-butted him, striking him in the face, the report says.
As Wood was being transported to the Marion County Jail, she made several attempts to break the partition between the seats and the windows inside the patrol vehicle “by striking them with her hands and kicking them with her feet.” The deputy noted that Wood “continued these actions during the entire transport” but there was no damage to his patrol vehicle.
Wood was charged with battery on an officer and resisting/obstructing an officer without violence. She was released on $6,000 bond early Tuesday morning.