Jasonville woman facing felony charge after alleged battery on deputy

A 22-year-old Jasonville woman who allegedly cussed then kicked a Greene County Sheriff's Deputy was arrested Saturday and will be arraigned in Greene Superior Court on Friday.

She also failed sobriety and breath tests.

Shannon E. Weddle is facing a class D felony count of battery upon a law enforcement officer resulting in bodily injury, resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor and two misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated in a manner which endangered a person and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Weddle was driving a Ford Explorer when she was stopped by Deputy Jeremy Inman for driving left of center and throwing a burning object out of a moving vehicle.

The deputy was heading west on State Road 54 near County Road 800W when he saw the Explorer traveling at a slow rate of speed. After it was stopped, he reported smelling a strong odor of alcohol and seeing a box of Bud Light bottles in the back floorboard of the Explorer.

The deputy wrote in the affidavit that he asked for her license and she said she was just trying to go home. He asked for her license again and she said she would know if she was drunk or not. So he asked for her license again, got it and asked her to exit the car.

According to the probable cause, Weddle was swaying and leaning on the vehicle, failed all sobriety field tests, said she'd only had a drink-and-a-half, then tested at .19 on a portable breathalyzer.

When told she failed all of the tests, she said she did not and called the deputy an obscene name. Then she called him a worse obscene name.

The affidavit states the officer offered to take her to the Linton Police Department for a breath test but she refused and said they could just take her to jail.

But then when they attempted to take her into custody, with two other officers on the scene to assist, she jerked away and started fighting. On the walk toward the patrol vehicle, the deputy said Weddle kicked him. Once in the patrol vehicle, she kept taking her seatbelt off, tried to open the door and kicked the cage and seat.

Weddle was released from jail on Sunday on $9,000 bond.