TAVARES, Fla.—A Tavares woman was arrested Thursday on a warrant stemming from alleged threats she made against the Department of Children and Families in a September incident that turned out to be a stinky situation for Tavares Police Department.
Around 8 a.m. Sept. 22, TPD responded to the Department of Children and Families, 1300 South Duncan Drive, on a report of a woman banging on the doors and making threats. When officers arrived, they asked Anquinette Fieldings what was going on and she became upset and said “DCF needed to do their jobs” and she needed immediate assistance.
Fieldings, 33, is accused of making death threats toward employees and chasing one DCF employee inside the building. The employee locked Fieldings out, but she gained access to the building when the doors automatically opened upon the start of business hours and the employees barricaded themselves in an enclosed area out of fear, the arresting officer noted in the report.
When an officer tried to question Fieldings further, she refused to speak with the officer and began yelling she was being harassed and officers would shoot her. She laid down on the ground and continued to scream, “Don’t shoot me, don’t shoot me,” and said she was being “beat up” by officers, according to the report.
Officers rolled her onto her stomach, lifted her to her feet and handcuffed her, and then Fieldings began to yell that she urinated and defecated on herself.
“I then observed Ms. Fieldings waving her right leg back and forth in a forceful manner. Ms. Fieldings stated that she did in fact defecate herself and needed to get the feces out of her pant leg. The force of her waving her leg back and forth caused her feces to spray towards my lower pant legs and shoes of my uniform. Furthermore, a large amount of feces exited her pant leg which caused (me) to ultimately step in her feces,” the arresting officer noted in the report.
Fieldings continued to “forcefully push out more feces from her body” while speaking with officers and she “intentionally” stepped in feces and dragged her feet. Fieldings placed her hands in the back of her pants and took a handful of feces she rubbed around in her hands, almost touching a sergeant on the scene. Officers sat her down in the parking lot, where she continued to grab more feces, and rubbed it on her forearms, back and into the handcuffs detaining her, according to the report.
“Due to the amount of feces that Ms. Fieldings rubbed into and on my handcuffs, they had to be disposed of,” according to the arresting officer.
Fieldings complained her hand and arm hurt from being detained and Lake EMS responded and transported her to AdventHealth Waterman.
Fieldings was trespassed from DCF, and a warrant was later issued for her arrest for assault on a DCF worker and resisting arrest. She was picked up Thursday and released the same day on $2,000 bond.
