While a woman was being served an eviction notice by the police, she released a swarm of bees onto them.
Rorie S. Woods, 55, was facing multiple charges of assault and battery, but she pleaded not guilty during an October 12 arraignment in Springfield District Court.The woman maintained that she was protesting a ¡°wrongful eviction¡±.
When the police officers reached the Woods residence that day to hand over the eviction notice, they were met with a bunch of protestors.
The officers kept waiting for the homeowner, Woods, to reach her residence while she was at the court, delaying the eviction.
The woman reached the residence in an SUV towing a trailer with bee hives inside it and began "shaking" them, breaking the cover off one and unleashing hundreds of?bees?that initially stung one deputy.
Woods was wearing a beekeeper's suit to protect herself and was eventually arrested, but not before she inflicted stings on several other officers, three of whom are allergic to bees.
When Woods was told that the deputies were allergic, Woods said, "Oh, you¡¯re allergic? Good," as per the report. Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi said there were no severe injuries during the incident. "We had one staff member go [to] the hospital, and, luckily, he was all right," he said. The police officer said that Woods could have been charged with more serious offences had anything worse happened.??
A spokesman for Hampden County Sheriff Nicholas Cocchi said: ¡°We are always prepared for protests when it comes to evictions, but a majority of the groups who protest understand that we are just doing our statutory duty in accordance with state law.?And they appreciate how we go above and beyond to help the people being evicted with anything they need from food and temporary shelter to long-term housing, employment, and mental health and substance use disorder treatment.¡±
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