Woman terrorizes dollar store employee with Hawaiian Punch and tries to run him over with her Jeep after she was confronted for shoplifting: Cops

A pistillate successful Indiana allegedly stole a telephone charger astatine a dollar store and past tried to tally implicit the worker who confronted her.

It happened astir 7:30 p.m. Thursday adjacent the Dollar Depot connected Washington Avenue successful Evansville. Cops responded aft a Jeep astir struck an worker astatine the state presumption crossed the street, according to a probable origin apprehension affidavit. The worker said helium witnessed a pistillate — aboriginal identified arsenic 34-year-old Melissa Ann Noble — instrumentality a cellphone charger and charging artifact from the store earlier going to the state presumption successful her Jeep.

He said helium walked crossed the thoroughfare to face Noble and instrumentality a photograph of her licence plate. As helium was taking a photograph of the plate, Noble allegedly swung a vessel of Hawaiian Punch astatine the employee, hitting him successful the hand. She past hopped into the Jeep and enactment it successful reverse with the worker inactive down it, the affidavit said.

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The worker was capable to leap retired of the way. Noble past allegedly enactment the car successful thrust and swerved toward the worker "in an assertive manner, arsenic if trying to deed him with the car." She past drove retired of the parking lot.

Officers aboriginal spotted Noble's Jeep and pulled her over. Cops work Noble her Miranda rights, but she refused to accidental whether she understood them and demanded a lawyer. A rider wrong the conveyance said she didn't cognize astir the shoplifting, but did corroborate to cops that Noble tried to deed the worker astatine the state station, the affidavit stated.

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Inside the Jeep was the cellphone charger and charging artifact that were inactive successful the packaging, on with the vessel of Hawaiian Punch. Noble is facing charges of attempted battery with a deadly weapon, artillery and shoplifting.

As of Monday afternoon, she remained astatine the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond. Her adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Wednesday.