A Belleview woman accused of attacking her boyfriend while he held their infant found herself behind bars early Monday morning.
Belleview Police officers responded to a local residence where the victim, clad only in shorts, was standing in the front yard holding a crying child. He told officers he had asked 30-year-old Emily Ann Hinton for his car keys and she had started arguing with him, a report states.
The victim claimed that Hinton was intoxicated and started slapping him in the back while he was holding their child. Officers noted a red handprint in the center of the victim’s back and fingernail scratch marks on both of his sides.
Officers then spoke with Hinton, who had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and the smell of alcohol on her breath. She was at the door holding a purse and a child’s jacket and pair of shoes and “appeared to be under the influence,” the report says.
Hinton said the victim didn’t tell her he was calling the police and she wanted to give the jacket and shoes to her child. Officers asked her why the victim had a handprint on his back and she claimed “he did it to himself,” the report says.
An officer told Hinton to put her purse in a chair next to her and she held onto it. He approached her and she put the purse on top of nearby bushes before becoming argumentative when told to put her hands behind her back.
Two officers grabbed Hinton’s arms and secured them behind her back in handcuffs. They walked her to a patrol vehicle and she continued to be argumentative and initially refused to put her feet inside while sitting in the back seat, the report says.
An officer told Hinton he would have to use force if she didn’t comply with his commands and she then placed her feet inside the vehicle so he could shut the door. The officer searched her purse and found a glass pipe containing ashes that “smelled strongly of marijuana,” the report says.
After Hinton was transported to the Marion County Jail, she admitted that the pipe belonged to her and “she used it to smoke marijuana.” During a second search of Hinton’s purse, the officer found a clear plastic bag containing a green leafy substance that field-tested positive for marijuana, a white crystalline powder that tested positive for methamphetamine and several small Ziploc-type bags “commonly used to contain controlled substances,” the report says.
Hinton was charged with simple domestic battery, resisting an officer without violence, possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana (less than 20 grams) and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was being held on $4,000 bond and is due in court March 3 at 9 a.m.