CONYERS, Ga. — A woman has been accused of attacking a Conyers police officer while he tried to book her into the Rockdale County Jail.
On April 29, officers said they were sent to the Comfort Inn on Klondike Road after reports of a woman who had jumped on a car at a nearby traffic light. The woman had reportedly run into the hotel.
After a search of the hotel, the woman was discovered locked in one of the rooms. Officers talked to the woman, who first gave officers a fake name and date of birth.
She told officers she was taking an Uber from Atlanta to her mother's home in Augusta when the driver put her out at a gas station in Conyers. She said she had feared the driver would hurt her and ran off, which is when, she said, she had jumped on the motorist's car.
Officers were eventually able to identify the woman as Brittany Croswell and told her she was being arrested for providing a false identity to law enforcement.
After handcuffing her and taking her to the Rockdale County Jail, Croswell took a swing at an officer as he took her out of the police car, striking him in the face with the handcuffs.
Croswell and the officer fell over and she reached for the officer's Taser. The officer pushed away from her with his left forearm. As he did so, she leaned over and bit his arm. By that point, other officers were able to help subdue Croswell and take her into the jail.
Croswell has been charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, battery, obstruction of law enforcement officers, giving a false name, address or birthdate to a law enforcement officer and removal or attempted removal of a weapon from a law enforcement officer.
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