A Fort McCoy woman carrying a homemade weapon made out of a railroad spike was arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly attacking a Marion County sheriff’s deputy.
Deputies were called to a home in the 14800 block of NE 110th Court and when they arrived, an elderly man told them a suspicious woman, later identified as 38-year-old Katherine Rose Burkholder, had been knocking on his door. A short time later, deputies spotted Burkholder walking in the middle of Hwy. 316 and they could hear her making “random incoherent statements,” a sheriff’s office report states.
A deputy asked Burkholder to get out of the roadway but she continued to walk away from him. He then attempted to detain her and get her out of the middle of the road but she pulled away and swinging and struck him several times on both of his arms, the report says.
The deputy then pulled Burkholder out of the middle of the highway and took her to the ground as she continued to resist his attempts to handcuff her. He and another deputy eventually were able to place handcuffs on her and while searching her they found a railroad spike that was tied to a T-shirt “in what appeared to be a homemade weapon,” the report says, adding that Burkholder refused to say where she got the railroad spike.
Burkholder, who lives at 11610 NE 227th Pl. in Fort McCoy, was transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and interfering with a railroad track or equipment. In addition, her bond on a previous trespassing charged was revoked.
Burkholder was being held on $20,500 bond on the three new charges and no bond on the prior trespassing charge. She is due in court on July 29 at 9 a.m. and Aug. 6 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charges.