A homeless woman was arrested after she squatted and defecated in broad daylight at a busy shopping plaza.
Officers were called at about 1 p.m. Thursday to Village Crossroads after a business operator reported the incident and snapped a photo of the woman, later identified as 63-year-old Melodie Ann Smith, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department.
The Georgia native “was in plain sight of passing vehicles” on U.S. Hwy. 27/441 in the vicinity of Chipotle Mexican Grill when she “squatted over the sidewalk with her pants and underwear pulled down,” the report said.
When officers attempted to take her into custody, she pulled away and resisted their efforts…