A brief standoff in Burlington came to a peaceful conclusion on Tuesday when members of the city’s police managed to take an area woman into custody for a charge of misdemeanor assault.
Tonya Lynnette Mebane ultimately gave herself up to the police officers who came by her home at 3015 Winston Drive to investigate a report of a “domestic disturbance.”
According to a subsequent magistrate’s order, the basis for this complaint was an act of physical abuse that Mebane allegedly perpetrated against her elderly mother “by slapping” her “in the back.” Officers went on to charge the 44-year-old black female with the misdemeanor crime of simple assault for this alleged action…