(Editor’s note: Information reported earlier on NewsCow regarding this story was incorrect. Interim Chief Brett Stone said there were two cases on file for Martineau which made him believe there were two incidents on the same day.
That is not correct. Martineau was found leaping from train car to train car only once. The story has been corrected. NewsCow regrets the error that was made.
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It appears gravity got the best of a Winfield woman who was found trying to leap between train cars Tuesday.
Around 4 a.m., police were called to the rail yard near Fifth and Main after Geneana Martineau, 26, fell from atop a train car. Officers took the woman to the emergency room at William Newton Hospital where she became combative and struck a nurse and Winfield Lt. Frank Owens, according to interim police chief Brett Stone.
She was treated for minor injuries and jailed on a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer.
She faces additional charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing.
Martineau is familiar to police. Earlier this month, police went to the woman’s house in the 500 block of N. Michigan after she called the local mental health center.
Staff there were concerned Martineau might harm herself. While she was in an interview room at the police station, she used her head and hands to break through a wire-reinforced window in the holding room door, Stone said.
Police believe the woman was intoxicated at the time. She faces a count of criminal damage to property in connection with that incident.
