Winfield police briefly used a Taser Thursday to subdue a an out-of-control female suspect that bit one law enforcement officer and kicked another, police chief Danny Parker said.
Officers went to 511 Maris where a local man reported that a woman had been in his trailer and attacked him. A short time later, they found Geneana Martineau hiding behind a small shed nearby.
Martineau proved to be a handful for the officers attempting to arrest her. She slammed her head into a camper, a car and a concrete surface.
The woman was restrained by police with the help of fire department personnel at the scene. She was taken to the hospital for treatment of small cuts.
While at the hospital, Parker said, Martineau continued with her unruly behavior and bit a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper. At some point, she is also said to have kicked a Winfield officer.
She was eventually taken to a holding cell at the jail and refused to cooperate with officers. Winfield officer Jay Tate briefly used a Taser to subdue Martineau and she began to cooperate, Parker said.
She faces charges of domestic battery, criminal damage to property, obstruction of the legal process and two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer.
This is not the local police department’s first run in with the headstrong Martineau.
Last spring, the woman used her head and hands to bust out a wire-reinforced window in a holding cell at the Winfield police station. Martineau also was arrested in May 2009 for trespassing on railroad property and leaping between stationary train cars.
While at the hospital, after falling from a train car, she was combative with police and struck an officer. Martineau was 26 at the time.
