Illinois woman Carolee Bildsten (56) faces an aggravated assault charge after allegedly trying to strike a policeman with a sex toy.

As part of an investigation into a claim Bildsten skipped out on a restaurant bill for Joe's Crab Shack, an officer accompanied her home to retrieve money.

But Bildsten produced a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device’’, held it above her head, and advanced on the officer “in a threatening manner”.

The officer knocked the device out of the way arrested the woman.

The sex toy was further described as six inches long and "attached to a nylon harness."

Belfast Telegraph