Ashland woman arrested Sunday afternoon on multiple charges
By Morgan Rothborne, Ashland.news
Multiple police officers responded to the south end of the Bear Creek Greenway on Sunday afternoon where Ashland resident Jamie Leah Rosenthal, 45, was arrested after police initially responded to a report of a female “yelling in the street,” according to court documents.
A caller to Ashland police reported a woman yelling in the street and approaching vehicles near the intersection of Glendower and West Nevada streets shortly before 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The female was reported to be yelling “Alice,” which appeared to be the name of her dog, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with the Jackson County Circuit Court.
“(A witness) advised (he) attempted to pass her but the female jumped in front of his vehicle,” according to the affidavit. As APD officers responded to the scene, additional concerned citizens called dispatch reporting Rosenthal in the street.
“The female was said to be acting aggressive with passerby, yelling and cussing at them,” according to a police report.
When officers located Rosenthal in the area of Oxford Street, a neighbor was attempting to converse with her. When officers informed her she was being detained for disorderly conduct, she yelled at officers not to touch her and stated she wanted to speak to a “white man,” while she “continued to pace back and forth in the roadway.”
Multiple officers responded. Rosenthal retreated to her home and shut the door, the report says, then yelled through the door she wanted to speak with a “white woman,” threw rocks at officers, crouched behind a bed and refused commands to exit the residence as neighbors urged their children to go inside. Rosenthal threw unknown objects at the windows, breaking the front window loudly enough one officer asked if the loud sounds were gunshots, the report says, until officers were advised by a neighbor Rosenthal had exited the back door.
“We could see Jamie running towards the bike trail that backs up to a hill behind her property,” the affidavit said, before she paused for a while “in the middle of Bear Creek” and yelled at officers to “go away.”
After she got out of the creek, Ashland officers apprehended Rosenthal with the help of Talent police officers, according to an email from Deputy Chief of Ashland Police Dan Moulin.
Rosenthal was transported from the police vehicle of Officer Andy Gomez to waiting Ashland Fire & Rescue paramedics but refused to be seen by them, according to the affidavit.
Rosenthal was charged with a felony charge of attempted assault in the second degree, a felony charge of attempted misuse of weapon, a misdemeanor charge of one count of inferring with a peace officer, a misdemeanor count of reckless endangering, a misdemeanor count of harassment, a misdemeanor charge of escape in the third degree, a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in the second degree and a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest.
Rosenthal was lodged in the Jackson County Jail Sunday and is being held without bail on all charges except a $20,000 bail for the charge of unlawful use of a weapon, and a $5,000 bail on an apparently previous charge of criminal trespass in the second degree according to the Jackson County Jail roster.
Rosenthal had a virtual court hearing Monday, March 25, according to court documents.
Moulin, the deputy chief, confirmed via email that this was the same Jamie Rosenthal who was arrested in Ashland City Council chamber on Feb. 6 on a charge stemming from an incident the day before. She was lodged then in the Jackson County Jail on a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespass in the second degree and a misdemeanor charge of interfering with a peace officer.
Email Ashland.news reporter Morgan Rothborne at morganr@ashland.news.
