Schuylkill County Woman Allegedly Bites, Kicks, Spits On Police Officer

A Schuylkill County woman was locked up this week after she allegedly bit and spat on a police officer who was trying to arrest her during a fight.

According to court papers filed by Port Carbon Police, the incident happened at the playground on E. Bacon St. in Palo Alto.

Police were dispatched to the playground after Schuylkill County 9-1-1 received several calls from neighbors saying there were two women yelling at each other there.

When police arrived, they say they ordered both women to stop yelling and cursing. Numerous neighbors of the playground were out on their porches and in the area at the time of the incident.

Police say their commands to quiet down were ignored and then attempted to take one of the women, Jasmine Phile, into custody.

That’s when things escalated.

Phile began to walk away from police. She had to be physically restrained, police say, and placed in cuffs.

As police attempted to put her in the back of a Port Carbon patrol vehicle, Phile allegedly began kicking and spitting on one of the officers. Phile then allegedly tried to swing her legs out of the vehicle.

The officer tried to get her legs back into the vehicle and that’s when Phile allegedly bit him in the torso, forcing him to seek treatment at a nearby hospital.

Once Phile was finally in the vehicle, police say kept kicking the window.

Finally, back at the police station in Port Carbon, the other woman involved in the original argument back at the playground said Phile, her partner, had been very abusive toward her and was hitting her that day.

She said Phile was drinking that day and when she drinks, she becomes aggressive and difficult. The woman told police that all she wanted to do was leave but Phile kept arguing with her and fighting.

Port Carbon police were assisted at the scene by officers from Saint Clair, as well.

Phile was arraigned before District Magistrate Anthony Kilker early Thursday morning, who remanded her to Schuylkill County Prison on $50,000 bail. 

At her preliminary hearing before District Magistrate David Plachko on Oct. 8, she’ll have to answer to multiple charges, including two first-degree felony counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer, and misdemeanor counts of simple assault, resisting arrest, obstruction, and disorderly conduct. Phile was also charged with several summary offenses.