A Hobart woman is facing multiple charges after an altercation with her roommate and her friends while the roommate was trying to move her belongings out of their apartment.
Amanee Wiley, 18, was charged with three counts of criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, a level 3 felony; four counts of intimidation with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony; battery with bodily injury to a police officer, a level 5 felony; resisting law enforcement, a level 6 felony; and misdemeanor domestic battery, according to court records.
Hobart police officers responded to a call of an attempted stabbing at an apartment in the 300 block of Ruta Drive on May 13 around 7:15 p.m., according to court records.
When officers arrived, three people shouted at them from a ground-floor window. According to court records, they shouted, “She also has a knife and a can of mace.”
The officers entered the apartment through the unlocked front door and saw Wiley, who was holding a cell phone in her hand, walking toward the kitchen. As the officers shouted commands for Wiley to come out with her hands in the air, she screamed louder and walked away from the officers, according to court records.
When an officer tried to grab her left arm and place her against the wall, Wiley pulled away and tried to punch the officer, court records show.
The officers put Wiley on the ground and she struck them with her arms and legs. During the struggle, Wiley bit one of the officers and left teeth marks in his skin, according to court records.
Wiley’s roommate told police she went to the apartment with her three other people to move her things because Wiley had become aggressive toward her, according to court records.
When the group arrived, the roommate told police that Wiley had been hostile and argumentative. They started arguing about groceries, the roommate told police, and during the argument, Wiley grabbed a knife from the kitchen.
When Wiley grabbed the knife, one of the roommate’s friends was able to leave the apartment. The group came to the apartment to grab some of the roommate’s belongings because even though the lease is in the roommate’s name and Wiley is listed as a roommate, Wiley threatened to destroy her things, court records show.
Wiley raised the knife and pointed it at them, the roommate told police, and threatened to stab them all. During the argument, Wiley opened the refrigerator door, preventing them from leaving, according to court records.
When Wiley grabbed a can of mace and continued to threaten her roommate and her friends, the roommate told police they went to the back bedroom. The roommate then called 911, according to court records.
After the roommate called 911, Wiley entered the back room, sans knife and club, and began yelling that it was her apartment.
Wiley was taken to the Lake County Jail in a Hobart police transport van “due to the level of volatility” she exhibited. While inside, Wiley tried to kick her way out of the van, according to court records.
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