A woman faces charges of vandalizing government property after she allegedly head butted a police car hard enough to dent it.
The hard-headed suspect, Amanda Collins, 39, of Morrison is charged with vandalism to city government property and resisting arrest. She will face hearing before General Sessions Judge Bill Locke next month.
Her charges come after she was involved in a domestic incident outside a gas station on South Chancery Street with a man she knew.
“They got in an argument over Ms. Collins riding other males around in his vehicle,” said McMinnville policewoman Rachel Nichols, noting an off-duty officer, who was inside the store, saw Collins initiate the physical confrontation by pushing the man she was arguing with.
Nichols tried to ease the situation.
“I went to grab her by the arm and she pushed away,” Nichols swore in her warrant against the woman, noting she had to take the suspect to the ground but Collins kept resisting. “She crossed her arms and refused to move them.”
Things escalated even further once Collins was placed in a patrol car for transport to jail.
“She was hitting her head on the vehicle partition,” the officer said, noting the partition separates the prisoners in the back from the officer up front. “She kicked the inside of the door.”
Once they arrived at the jail, Collins lashed out. “She started to hit the trunk with her head.”
The end result was two dents on the patrol car’s fender well which brought the vandalism charges against her.