Crime & Safety

Woman Assaults Three Police Officers

Euclid woman charged with three felonies for behavior during and after drunken driving arrest

A Euclid woman was arrested and charged with three felony counts of assaulting a peace officer after she was spotted driving 70 miles per hour down Mayfield Road.

Police say they stopped Ebony Taylor, 36, as she was driving near Mayfield Road and Forest Hills Boulevard at 1:36 a.m. Sunday, March 17.

When police asked Taylor to exit her car, she fought with them, the report says. She was taken to Cleveland Heights Jail and continued to fight with officers there, using profanities, kicking and swinging her arms at the officers.

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She squeezed one officer with her wrist and broke his skin with her nails and grabbed the feet of another as she was lying on the floor, causing him to fall and injure his elbow.

According to court documents, she appeared in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Thursday and remains in jail on a $5,000 bond.

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