Last Saturday, an afternoon encounter near a group of high school students on Powell Street ended with a trip to the hospital and a jail booking, after an Emeryville woman was arrested on suspicion of groping a 15-year-old girl and biting a responding officer, according to police.
What police allege
Emeryville police say the woman walked up to a cluster of students on the 1600 block of Powell Street, grabbed a 15-year-old girl from behind and groped her, then followed it up with a lewd remark about the teen’s body. When officers moved in to detain her, they allege she fought back, biting one officer on the head and trying to bite another officer’s hand. At the hospital, police say she punched a CT machine and cracked its screen, as reported by East Bay Times.
Hospital visit and booking
Authorities said the woman was taken to a hospital in Berkeley for evaluation. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center operates hospital campuses in Berkeley and Oakland that serve the East Bay, according to Sutter Health. After she received medical treatment, officials say she was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, a county facility run by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, per Alameda County…