A Greenwood woman was arrested after police said she punched her husband, tried to grab a gun from an officer and left her toddler child in the care of her 8-year-old child.
Moriah Ann Nesler, 26, was arrested on charges of domestic battery, resisting law enforcement, public intoxication, neglect of a dependent, criminal mischief, disarming a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct and battery.
Police were called to Peppers, 299 S. State Road 135, Greenwood, over a fight at 11:36 p.m. Sunday. Two men told police they saw Nesler punch her husband, grab his shirt and refuse to get off of him, according to a report from the Greenwood Police Department.
The witnesses attempted to hold Nesler in the parking lot of the bar until officers arrived.
Nesler’s husband told police his wife attacked him. An officer reported blood and redness on his neck, according to the report.
Nesler yelled at officers and grabbed an officer’s gun while she was pulling away from an arrest, the report said.
She also pulled her hand out of a handcuff and was removed from a police officer’s car and put into a jail wagon, where she continued to resist arrest and grabbed a camera battery off an officer’s belt, according to the report.
Nesler told officers that an 8 year-old and 18 month-old left home alone. The husband told officers they both decided that the older child could care for the toddler while the couple went out for drinks, the report said. He was not arrested.
Nesler was held on $11,900 bond at the Johnson County jail.
