A Franklin woman was arrested after police said she spit on a medic, walked outside while nude and resisted arrest, following a New Year’s Eve disturbance at a Franklin motel.
Kellie Joleen Willbanks, 42, 648 Main St., was arrested on charges of public nudity, battery, battery by body waste, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement.
A Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputy was dispatched to the Hilltop Motel, 5351 S. U.S. 31, just after 10 p.m. Tuesday, to a report of a disturbance.
An employee of the motel told dispatchers that a couple were yelling at one another because a water pipe had busted in their room, according to a report from the sheriff’s office.
The officer arrived at the couple’s room and witnessed them yelling at one another and a large amount of water on the floor. The woman, identified as Willbanks, was naked, the report said.
Deputies asked Willbanks several times to get dressed before she wrapped herself in a blanket. The deputy noticed injuries to the man’s face, neck and arm, and the man told the deputy some of the injuries were caused during his altercation with Willbanks.
The man told deputies the pipes in their room busted, but he did not know how, according to the report.
The motel employee told deputies the pipes would not have busted because of the weather, and that the couple had busted the pipes, the report said.
Police attempted to talk to Willbanks, but she would not talk to them. She left the room twice while not wearing any clothes, and became verbally aggressive with a deputy, according to the report.
Deputies detained her, and while she was sitting in the hallway of the motel, she urinated in front of deputies. Deputies asked for medics to check her out, the report said.
When medics arrived, she spit on a medic, raised her middle fingers at deputies and screamed a profane word. She also attempted to expose herself, according to the report.
Willbanks was transported to Johnson Memorial Health, where hospital staff cleared her to be taken to jail. She resisted arrest, the report said.
She was taken to the Johnson County jail, where she was held on $6,200 bond.
Deputies will forward information about the pipes being busted to the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office. The prosecutor’s office will decide what, if any, charges to file.
