Framingham police sprayed a Stoughton woman with pepper spray after she repeatedly kicked an officer in the groin on Wednesday, authorities said.Police arrested Maranda Schmitt, 35, after a disturbance in the bathroom at the Stop & Shop on Old Connecticut Path at 3:51 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Stephen Cronin said.MetroWest Daily News reported Saturday that an officer was off duty, grocery shopping, when store employees asked him for help. They said a woman was screaming in the bathroom, bothering other employees. When a store employee asked the woman, later identified as Schmitt, to stop screaming, Schmitt threatened to kill her, the lieutenant said.When an officer spoke to her, Schmitt appeared to be drunk and she said, "I did nothing wrong," Cronin said.Officers then arrested Schmitt, who screamed and struggled all the way from inside the store to a cruiser. Once there, officers had trouble putting her in the back of a cruiser."She kicked Officer (Robert) Tibor several times in the crotch area," said Cronin. "He took out his pepper spray and told her he would use it if she continued. When she kept kicking him, he sprayed her for one second, and then she stopped."Police charged Schmitt, of 1678 Central St., with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.Schmitt was released from the police station later that night without bail. According to the police log, Schmitt was taken into protective custody at 2:21 a.m. due to her intoxication when she was at the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham.Schmitt pleaded not guilty at her Framingham District Court arraignment on Thursday and was released without bail. She is due back in court on Nov. 20 for a pretrial conference.

Framingham police sprayed a Stoughton woman with pepper spray after she repeatedly kicked an officer in the groin on Wednesday, authorities said.

Police arrested Maranda Schmitt, 35, after a disturbance in the bathroom at the Stop & Shop on Old Connecticut Path at 3:51 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Stephen Cronin said.


MetroWest Daily News reported Saturday that an officer was off duty, grocery shopping, when store employees asked him for help. They said a woman was screaming in the bathroom, bothering other employees. When a store employee asked the woman, later identified as Schmitt, to stop screaming, Schmitt threatened to kill her, the lieutenant said.

When an officer spoke to her, Schmitt appeared to be drunk and she said, "I did nothing wrong," Cronin said.

Officers then arrested Schmitt, who screamed and struggled all the way from inside the store to a cruiser. Once there, officers had trouble putting her in the back of a cruiser.

"She kicked Officer (Robert) Tibor several times in the crotch area," said Cronin. "He took out his pepper spray and told her he would use it if she continued. When she kept kicking him, he sprayed her for one second, and then she stopped."

Police charged Schmitt, of 1678 Central St., with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Schmitt was released from the police station later that night without bail. According to the police log, Schmitt was taken into protective custody at 2:21 a.m. due to her intoxication when she was at the MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham.

Schmitt pleaded not guilty at her Framingham District Court arraignment on Thursday and was released without bail. She is due back in court on Nov. 20 for a pretrial conference.