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AN INCREASED PUBLIC SAFETY PRESENCE ALONG THE RIVER. A WOMAN IS FACING CHARGES, ACCUSED OF UNLEASHING BEES ON POLICE. INVESTIGATORS SENDING US THESE PHOTOS OF THE OCTOBER 12TH INCIDENT IN LONGMEADOW. THEY SAY RORIE WOODS DROVE UP WITH THE MAN-MADE BEE HIVES AS POLICE WERE ENFORCING AN EVICTION. THEY SAY SHE STRUGGLED WITH A SHERIFF’S DEPUTY BEFORE SMASHING A BOX AND FLIPPING IT OVER, UNLEASHING THE BEES. POLICE SAY SEVERAL OFFICERS WERE STUNG, AND ONE STAFF MEMBER HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT IS EXPECTED TO BE OK. WOODS NOW FACES SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING ASSAULT AND BATTER
Bees unleashed successful onslaught connected deputies during eviction enforcement, Hampden County sheriff says
Rorie Susan Woods, 55, of Hadley, faces charges including battle and battery
Deputies assigned to enforce an eviction successful cardinal Massachusetts said they were attacked by a pistillate equipped with a swarm of bees. The deputies were enforcing the eviction astatine 49 Memery Lane successful Longmeadow astatine 9:15 a.m. connected Oct. 12 erstwhile a bluish Nissan Xterra pulled up, Hampden County Sheriff Nicholas Cocchi said successful a statement. The SUV was driven by Rorie Susan Woods, 55, of Hadley, the sheriff said. Woods was towing manufactured bee hives down her SUV. Photos provided by the sheriff's bureau amusement Woods struggling with a deputy."A Sheriff’s lawman tried to halt her, but arsenic the agitated bees started getting retired and circling the area, helium pulled back," the sheriff wrote successful a statement. "She past smashed the lid, and flipped a hive disconnected of the flatbed, making the bees highly aggressive. They swarmed the country and stung respective officers and different guiltless bystanders who were nearby."Woods donned a beekeeper's suit and carried a operation of bees to the beforehand doorway of the home, wherever she tried to further agitate the bees, Cocchi said. The sheriff said this was an effort to halt the eviction process. Photos provided by the sheriff's bureau amusement Woods was inactive wearing the beekeeper's suit erstwhile she was yet arrested. "This woman, who traveled here, enactment lives successful information arsenic respective of the unit connected country are allergic to bees," Cocchi said successful a connection provided by his office. "We had 1 unit subordinate spell the infirmary and luckily, helium was alright oregon she would beryllium facing manslaughter charges. I enactment people’s close to protestation peacefully but erstwhile you transverse the enactment and enactment my unit and the nationalist successful danger, I committedness you volition beryllium arrested."Woods is facing 4 counts of battle and artillery by means of a unsafe weapon, 3 counts of battle by means of a unsafe limb and 1 number of disorderly conduct. She was booked astatine the Western Mass. Regional Women’s Correctional Facility.Zillow shows the location astatine 49 Memery Ln. is 9,563 quadrate feet with 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms. The estimated worth is $1.515 million. “We are ever prepared for protests erstwhile it comes to evictions, but a bulk of the groups who protestation recognize that we are conscionable doing our statutory work successful accordance with authorities law,” said Cocchi. “And they admit however we spell supra and beyond to assistance the radical being evicted with thing they request from nutrient and impermanent shelter, to longterm housing, employment, and intelligence wellness and substance usage upset treatment."
LONGMEADOW, Mass. —
Deputies assigned to enforce an eviction successful cardinal Massachusetts said they were attacked by a pistillate equipped with a swarm of bees.
The deputies were enforcing the eviction astatine 49 Memery Lane successful Longmeadow astatine 9:15 a.m. connected Oct. 12 erstwhile a bluish Nissan Xterra pulled up, Hampden County Sheriff Nicholas Cocchi said successful a statement. The SUV was driven by Rorie Susan Woods, 55, of Hadley, the sheriff said.
Woods was towing manufactured bee hives down her SUV. Photos provided by the sheriff's bureau amusement Woods struggling with a deputy.
Hampden County Sheriff's Office
"A Sheriff’s lawman tried to halt her, but arsenic the agitated bees started getting retired and circling the area, helium pulled back," the sheriff wrote successful a statement. "She past smashed the lid, and flipped a hive disconnected of the flatbed, making the bees highly aggressive. They swarmed the country and stung respective officers and different guiltless bystanders who were nearby."
Woods donned a beekeeper's suit and carried a operation of bees to the beforehand doorway of the home, wherever she tried to further agitate the bees, Cocchi said. The sheriff said this was an effort to halt the eviction process.
Photos provided by the sheriff's bureau amusement Woods was inactive wearing the beekeeper's suit erstwhile she was yet arrested.
"This woman, who traveled here, enactment lives successful information arsenic respective of the unit connected country are allergic to bees," Cocchi said successful a connection provided by his office. "We had 1 unit subordinate spell the infirmary and luckily, helium was alright oregon she would beryllium facing manslaughter charges. I enactment people’s close to protestation peacefully but erstwhile you transverse the enactment and enactment my unit and the nationalist successful danger, I committedness you volition beryllium arrested."
Woods is facing 4 counts of battle and artillery by means of a unsafe weapon, 3 counts of battle by means of a unsafe limb and 1 number of disorderly conduct. She was booked astatine the Western Mass. Regional Women’s Correctional Facility.
Hampden County Sheriff's Office
Zillow shows the location astatine 49 Memery Ln. is 9,563 quadrate feet with 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms. The estimated worth is $1.515 million.
“We are ever prepared for protests erstwhile it comes to evictions, but a bulk of the groups who protestation recognize that we are conscionable doing our statutory work successful accordance with authorities law,” said Cocchi. “And they admit however we spell supra and beyond to assistance the radical being evicted with thing they request from nutrient and impermanent shelter, to longterm housing, employment, and intelligence wellness and substance usage upset treatment."
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