GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Grey Information) - Authorities in Florida say a lady has been arrested after she threatened to injure a person at a bus cease.
In line with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Workplace, 31-year-old Gabriela Mcleskey was taken into custody on Tuesday after she threatened to chop off a person’s penis and barricaded herself inside a residence.
WCJB stories that deputies obtained a name concerning a lady at a bus cease holding a knife who was threatening to chop off a person’s genitalia earlier than driving away.
Deputies positioned the lady’s automobile at a close-by Circle Ok and tried to carry out a visitors cease. Nonetheless, Mcleskey reportedly took off from authorities and led them on a chase that ended at her house.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Mcleskey bumped into the home and created a barricade scenario that lasted for a number of hours.
Close by residents had been unable to enter their houses whereas the scenario remained energetic.
“I believed that perhaps somebody obtained killed or one thing,” mentioned neighbor Stephanie Rodriguez. “It was sort of scary as a result of we reside so shut.”
Authorities mentioned Mcleskey was the one particular person inside the house after they eliminated her, and nobody was injured through the incident.
Mcleskey was booked on costs that included aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, based on the sheriff’s workplace.
Authorities mentioned the person on the bus cease advised them that he didn't know Mcleskey or why she had threatened him.
In line with court docket information, Mcleskey is scheduled to seem in court docket on Wednesday for an unrelated home battery case.