Woman Facing Charges After Allegedly Threatening Apartment Residents and Fighting With Police

(KNSI) — A 33-year-old woman is in custody after a wild assault at an apartment building in Waite Park.

According to a press release, police were called to a knife complaint on the 200 block of 3rd Street South at about 3:15 Saturday afternoon. Several people said a woman was going into apartments and threatening to kill people with a knife. Police arrived and heard yelling.

One officer said she saw the woman chasing a Somali man, so she pulled out her Taser and told her to get on the ground. As she was being arrested, she started to resist and assaulted an officer, threatened others and made several racist comments.

Witnesses told investigators the suspect hurled racial insults at the man as he walked by her and then threw a jar of salsa at him, hitting him in the back. She then started to chase after him. She was also allegedly throwing slices of pizza at people in the building.

The press release says the suspect was placed in a wrap restraint for the safety of everyone at the scene and was taken into custody and booked into the Stearns County jail. She is facing several charges, including felony second-degree assault, assault motivated by racial bias, first-degree burglary and obstruction.

KNSI does not typically name suspects until they have been formally charged.

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