{"id":165352,"date":"2023-04-20T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=165352"},"modified":"2023-04-20T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:55:45","slug":"woman-arrested-for-assaulting-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/04\/20\/woman-arrested-for-assaulting-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for assaulting VW officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert woman is facing a felony charge of assaulting a police officer, in connection with an incident that occurred Monday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_6434.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165353\"\/><figcaption>Latricia Darst<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a police report, Latricia Darst, 34, went to the police station to report a domestic incident, but she refused to talk to the first officer who tried to help her.&nbsp;As she sat and waited on the supervisor to come out, she became upset and left screaming at the officers as she exited the police station.&nbsp;She was warned for disorderly conduct for her behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to calls about a disturbance at her N. Cherry St. residence, officers responded.&nbsp;Darst drove up and continued to scream and curse at the officers.&nbsp;An officer went to arrest Darst and she pushed him, then continued to resist arrest and punched an officer in the face. He was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to assaulting a police officer, a fourth degree felony, Darst&nbsp; was arrested for OVI, and was taken to the Van Wert County Correctional Facility and was later freed on $2,500 bond.&nbsp;Other charges may be filed after a review by the Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Highway patrol responded to help in this incident, and Chief Doug Weigle thanked both departments for their response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert woman is facing a felony charge of assaulting a police officer, in connection with an incident that occurred Monday evening. According to a police report, Latricia Darst, 34, went to the police station to report a domestic incident, but she refused to talk to the first officer who tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 09:30:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165355,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165352\/revisions\/165355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}