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Merry Christmas? Gets Arrested

By Baker Associates

With a name that certainly got her teased at school, it is no wonder that Merry Christmas, a forty-four year-old woman from Boynton Beach, Florida, was in a bad mood when police showed up to investigate a public disturbance in a Florida neighborhood two Sundays ago. Apparently the police were called at around 6 p.m. to respond to the disturbance, and when they arrived Merry Christmas came out of the house and began shouting at another woman the police were interviewing. The police told her to step away from the victim but she did not; she also resisted an arrest attempt and the police officer reportedly had to bend her arm to take her down. She was charged with resisting arrest without violence, a misdemeanor in Florida. This scenario begs two questions: First, is Merry Christmas the offender?s real name? Apparently, that seems to be the case and it is a happy coincidence that she picked the holiday season to get arrested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on December 25, 2009 (boomark / email).