A 35-year-old Barrington woman who was facing two police charges picked up a third when she allegedly head-butted an officer while being transported to the ACI.
At about 10 a.m. on Friday, March 6, Barrington police charged Erin A. Francis, of 17 Allen Ave., with domestic-disorderly conduct and domestic-vandalism/malicious injury to property, after she allegedly damaged a telephone and television at her parents’ home.
According to police, the suspect’s parents told officers that their daughter was out of control and that they wanted her out of their home. Officers then approached Ms. Francis, who was in a bedroom at the home, and attempted to put her in handcuffs. While they were doing so, Ms. Francis allegedly grabbed a medication bottle and ingested four pills; it was not clear what the pills were.
Police said Ms. Francis, who was wearing a walking cast on one of her feet, fell to the ground and refused to get up. The officers picked her up and carried her outside the residence. She was then brought to a hospital for evaluation.
At about 2 p.m., police transported Ms. Francis back to the Barrington Police Station where she was formally charged and processed. Officers placed Ms. Francis in the back of a cruiser so that she could be brought to the ACI in Cranston, but she then reportedly began slamming her boot cast against a plexiglas shield inside the cruiser.
Officers began to secure Ms. Francis’s legs in plastic leg cuffs when she allegedly jerked her head forward, head-butting the officer under his eye.
Police said Ms. Francis then screamed at them for the entire time while she was being transported to the ACI and later bragged to ACI officers that she had head-butted a Barrington policeman.