A Villager has been jailed on $10,000 bond following her arrest after she was found naked in the street wearing nothing but a pair of black boots.
A couple had been driving their car down Estrada Place in the Village of Rio Ponderosa at 6:30 p.m. Saturday when they encountered 51-year-old Kelly Marie Carpenter standing naked in the middle of the street, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. When their vehicle approached her, she started beating on it with her fists. The man driving the car rolled down the window because he feared she would break it. When the man, who is over the age of 90, rolled down the window, she struck him in the shoulder while she was screaming incoherently.
The couple, afraid of what harm she might inflict, drove around the corner and called law enforcement.
When a deputy arrived, Carpenter was still standing in the street, surrounded by household items. When the deputy approached her, Carpenter threw a plastic spray bottle at the deputy and used vulgar language, the report indicated.
“I’m naked, arrest me,” she said, according to the report.
She then hit the deputy in the waist with a windshield squegee.
When the deputy handcuffed Carpenter and put her in the back of a patrol car, she kicked the door, resulting in damage to the locking mechanism of the door.
She is facing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, battery on a person over the age of 65, simple assault on a person over the age of 65 and indecent exposure.
The arrest report indicated Carpenter resides on Estrada Place.
