By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater woman accused of kicking a Perkins police officer four times in the abdomen and once in the head has been jailed on $5,000 bail pending a July 12 court appearance on a two-count charge including public intoxication.
If convicted of assault and battery on Perkins Police Officer Jason Thompson, Alicia Renee Waitt, 26, could be imprisoned for as long as five years. If convicted of being intoxicated in public, Waitt could be jailed for five to 30 days, court records show.
Waitt was arrested at 9:15 pm on June 10 in the 400 block of Eaton Ave. in Perkins where a woman, who has known her a long time, lives, according to an affidavit.
The Perkins police officer had been dispatched by the Payne County Sheriff’s Office 11 minutes earlier to the 300 block of Eaton on a report of an intoxicated woman in a black tank top and panties “trying to assault or injure a dog,” Thompson’s affidavit said.
When the suspect saw the officer, she began to run into a house in the 400 block of Eaton Avenue, the affidavit alleged.
“As I was walking towards the porch, the homeowner opened the glass front door for me and I ran past. I went into the hallway area where (he) said he believed someone to be in the back bedroom area.
“I walked to the rearmost bedroom on the west side of the house and saw Alicia Waitt lying on her back on the bed pretending to be asleep,” in a black tank top and panties, the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“I instructed Alicia Waitt to get up and turn over. I instructed her to put her hands behind her and pointed to the small of her back. Waitt said that she had a broken left arm…At this time, Alicia Waitt was at her feet and swinging her fist at my head. (The homeowner) yelled ‘hey’ and I looked over in time to block her hand and push her back on the bed away from me.
“Alicia Waitt landed on her bottom on the bed. I attempted to grab Alicia Waitt’s hands and she exclaimed her arm was broken, but I did not observe any deformity or apparent injury and she could apparently continue using the limb appropriately while resisting arrest.
“Alicia Waitt was then on her bottom sitting on the bed and kicked me in the lower abdomen four times. I grabbed hold of one of her hands and (the homeowner) grabbed the other and slid her off the bed,” where she resisted, fought and screamed, the officer alleged.
“Her brother was standing outside the room like I asked, and I asked him what arm was broken and he said he had no idea,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
With the help of the homeowner, “I applied handcuffs to the rear of her body and checked for tightness. I kept telling Alicia Waitt to take a breath and calm down, but she continued to curse at us and roll around on the carpet.
“As Alicia Waitt was on the ground, she rolled to her side and continued to try to kick me as I was holding her forearm getting ready to put her on her feet again. As I was telling her that she needed to stop, I was going to stand her up, she used her foot to try and kick me in the face. I turned my head and she kicked the left side of my head,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
After putting her in a patrol car, “During the ride, Alicia Waitt kept kicking and screaming obscenities and threats. Alicia Waitt said that the Cartel was going to come and take care of me. Alicia Waitt said she was going to tell them that I broke her arm and they would be coming to take care of me and all of my family.
“Alicia Waitt also believed I was another officer at our agency at one time and kept calling me his name. Alicia Waitt also called me racial slurs, a pedophile and cursed at me,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
Since the Payne County Jail did not have a female detention officer to change Waitt into jail clothes, the Perkins officer took her to the Stillwater Police Department’s Jail where she “was also very uncooperative and refused to follow directions,” the affidavit alleged. It took five officers to get Waitt into a pair of pants that she was refusing to get into, the affidavit alleged.
After Waitt was jailed, the Perkins officer went back to speak to the homeowner, “who opened the door and let me in earlier in the day about the incident,” Thompson wrote in his affidavit.
The homeowner said she heard a commotion outside, opened the door and “Alicia Waitt was lying on the paved porch right outside the door crying,” the affidavit alleged.
“Alicia Waitt didn’t make any sense, but said something about she was ready to go to hell and die, but she still wasn’t making any sense,” the affidavit alleged.
When the officer contacted the original reporting party, “I asked if Alicia Waitt ever injured or harmed the dog, and he said she did not. She was saying she would kick or strike the dog because it was barking at her while she walked by,” the affidavit alleged.
According to court records, last September Waitt was put on five years of probation with an order to undergo random drug testing for illegally using a relative’s car.
“While in front of the passenger side transport compartment, Waitt stated that she was going to take off running and that I was just going to have to kill her,” Perkins Police Officer Daryn Zanfardino wrote in an affidavit. “Waitt was placed inside the transport compartment for her safety while I continued to investigate the situation,” the officer wrote in his affidavit last July.
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