Aberdeen Woman Bit Officer's Arm, Police Say

An Aberdeen woman bit an officer on the arm when police tried to take her into custody, authorities said.

Around 10 p.m. on Sept. 26, Aberdeen police responded to a report of a fight at a home on the 400 block of Hawthorne Street.

When they arrived, there were 10 to 15 people outside, but no one was fighting.

A woman -- later identified as Jennifer M. Loughlin, 25, of Hawthorne Street -- “appeared to be heavily intoxicated, uncooperative, and disorderly,” police said.

When police told her they were taking her into custody, she resisted, Chief John T. Powers said in a news release.

Officers Frank Maisano, Jessica McDougall and Charles Trucillo, subdued her and put her in handcuffs, police said.

That’s when she bit McDougall’s arm and refused to let go, Powers said.

Police said they eventually were able to stop her from biting the officer, and she was taken to headquarters.

Loughlin was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault on a police officer.

She was released on bail set at $15,000.

McDougall was transported by Bayshore EMS to Bayshore Community Hospital. She was treated and released.