A homeless woman was arrested Thursday after trespassing at an Ocala motel twice on the same day.
A Marion County sheriff’s deputy was called to the Royal Inn at 2900 S Pine Ave. on Wednesday shortly before 10 a.m. When he arrived, the manager said he wanted 29-year-old Ashley Nicole Brenneisen trespassed from the property. The manager said the person who rented the room Brenneisen wanted to get into had told him that he didn’t want her there, a sheriff’s office report says.
The manager said Brenneisen had been gone for five days and then came back asking for a key to a room she hadn’t rented. He said she became “loud and belligerent” when he refused to give her the key, so he called the sheriff’s office for help.
Brenneisen told the deputy that her boyfriend said she could stay in the room but could not provide information about who actually rented the room. She also had all her belongings with her, not in the room she tried to claim was hers, the report says.
The deputy issued Brenneisen a trespass warning and told her she could be arrested if she returned to the motel. He then watched her leave the property.
Later Thursday, at approximately 5:30 p.m., the deputy received another call from the manager saying that Brenneisen had returned. When the deputy arrived, she was “yelling and carrying on” with customers and the manager, who said he wanted her to be removed from the property.
Brenneisen was arrested and transported to the Marion County Jail. On the way to the facility she told the deputy that she knew she wasn’t supposed to return to the motel but she believed she was “unfairly” trespassed and the manager “was abusing his power.”
Brenneisen was booked into the Marion County Jail at 6:24 p.m., charged with trespassing and held on $1,000 bond.
