Updated with more details.

ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis police officer was charged with assault Thursday for allegedly punishing two prisoners she was transporting in August for making rude comments.

Officer Lori Wozniak, 47, faces two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree assault in St. Louis Circuit Court.

The men, ages 21 and 19, were arrested about 8 p.m. on Aug. 2 when officers were called to the Kingshighway Baptist Church at 5401 South Kingshighway. They were reportedly breaking glass on the church marquee, police said.

Wozniak was assigned to transport them in a van to the South Patrol Division, at 3157 Sublette Avenue.

Charging documents claim the two arrestees “said rude things to each other” about Wozniak. She told her sergeant about it, and said she wanted to drop them off at Riverview Boulevard and Interstate 270 and “make them walk home,” the charges claim. “She also said she was going to stop hard at every stop sign between the scene and the station,” the charges say.