BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— A 30-year-old Gainesville woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading to stealing items from a storage shed in Brooker and kicking deputies while she was being arrested.
Natosha Leann Walton pleaded no contest to the Aug. 3 offenses of battery on a law enforcement officer, criminal mischief with property damage, burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, resisting an officer, fraud-impersonation and smuggling contraband into a correctional facility.
According to an arrest report, deputies responded to a Bloxham Street address in Brooker around 7:30 PM.
There they found a witness who told them a woman kicked in the door of his sister’s storage shed, and then ran into an adjacent field. Deputies set up a perimeter around the property, and then located and detained the defendant.
“Myself and Deputy Lewis ordered the suspect to stand up and (told her) that she was under arrest,” wrote arresting officer Cameron Perkins in a report. “The suspect began to kick and scream and kick Deputy Lewis as well as Detective Crews.”
Perkins added that the defendant refused to voluntarily enter the back of a patrol vehicle, and once inside, she began to kick the cage attached to the window of the cruiser.
Perkins wrote that once at the jail, Walton gave a false name when asked for her identification, and also denied having any contraband on her person. However, a search later revealed three cigarettes hidden under the defendant’s breast.
The items stolen from the storage shed included clothing, a cell phone, jewelry, collectible coins and a Bible.
