A North Port woman is facing numerous charges after she drove her pickup truck through two security gates at the Mabry Carlton Water Treatment Plant in Venice on Jan. 29, shutting off the plant’s power and assaulting at least three people.
Maegan Nichol Grimes, 44, has been charged with three counts of burglary with assault or battery, two counts of damaging property over $1,000, resisting arrest without violence, battery, and damaging property worth more than $200 but less than $1,000, according to court records. She also violated her probation for another battery case from 2022 which she pleaded no contest to in May 2023.
Grimes is still in custody at the Sarasota County Jail and has a bond of $22,500 for six of the charges against her, according to jail records. Court records on Feb. 6 indicate that an expert has been appointed to evaluate Grimes’ competency to see if her case can proceed forward toward trial.
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