A Sparks woman faces a felony and a misdemeanor following her arrest earlier this month by Lincoln County deputies.
Riki Dawn Bales, 48, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court on March 11 with Battery/Assault and Battery on a police officer and obstructing an officer.
Bales appeared before Associate District Judge Sheila Kirk on March 8 and Judge Kirk set a $3,000 bond for Bales, ordering her to have no contact with the victim. Bales made an initial appearance on March 15 and was ordered to return at 1 p.m. on March 22.
Court records show Judge Kirk scheduled a prepreliminary hearing for Bales at 1:30 p.m. on April 1. In Count 1, the felony, Bales is accused of kicking Lincoln County Deputy Christopher Hyde on March 8 this year in Lincoln County.
Count 2 charges her with obstructing an officer, a misdemeanor, by dropping to the ground and refusing to walk into the Lincoln County Jail when being jailed for trespassing by Hyde, delaying him in the performance of his duties on that same date.
In a probable cause affidavit filed in the case, Deputy Hyde reports he and Deputy Kevin Roe responded to a request to assist Prague Police Officer Jason Spearman at around 1:27 a.m. on March 8 with a disturbance at a residence at 1426 Whitmore Avenue in Prague and arrived about 1:40.
They came in contact with a male subject identified as Roger Griffith who was sitting on the front porch. He reportedly advised the officers that Officer Spearman was inside the residence talking with Bales.
Spearman told Hyde that Griffith wanted Bales to leave the residence and that she was refusing to do so. Hyde spoke with Griffith and he told the deputy Bales came to his residence at around noon that day and he asked her to leave multiple times.
The affidavit states that when Hyde went to the back bedroom where Officer Spearman was speaking with Bales, that Bales was sitting in a closet covering herself in potting soil.
The deputy and Spearman asked Bales to stand up and leave the residence and she refused to comply.
Eventually she stood up and walked out of the bedroom going into the next bedroom and sitting down.
Bales told the officers she wanted her belongings before she would leave and Griffith informed them all of her belongings had already been placed back into her vehicle in the driveway.
Hyde said in the affidavit that Bales continued refusing to leave the residence. She then stood up and took her dress off exposing herself fully, the deputy stated, and set it down on a table. He said he picked up the dress and handed it back to her and she balled it up and threw it in the deputy’s face.
Hyde placed her under arrest and later transported her to the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler. Deputy Roe and Officer Spearman stayed on the scene to get statements and personal information.