Ann Zaniewski, and Bill Laitner

Detroit Free Press

A woman who was accused of drop-kicking a birthday cake at Kroger is in the news again after police said she was involved in another dessert-related caper — slapping a worker an at ice cream shop.

Tricia Ann Kortes became upset during a visit to Ray's Ice Cream last summer because the shop had run out of the flavor she wanted, according to Royal Oak police. A manager at Ray's contacted police in June after seeing a photo of Kortes in a newspaper article about the cake incident.

According to police, Kortes reached over the counter and slapped a Ray's manager on the head on July 9, 2015 after the manager told her the shop was out of the flavor she wanted.

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The manager reported the assault to police but nothing happened until June of this year, when the manager saw a newspaper story about an angry woman drop-kicking a cake and recognized a picture of her as the same person, Ray's clerk Jenna Stevens told the Free Press. The manager contacted police again.

Kortes turned herself in this morning at the Royal Oak Police Department. She was arraigned by 44th District Court Judge Derek Meinecke on one count of assault and battery, a misdemeanor offense with a penalty of up to 93 days in jail and a fine of up to $500. Her next court date is Sept. 12.

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Stevens said she was not on duty last year when the assault took place. However, she is familiar with what occurred and said the woman had requested Mackinac Island Fudge ice cream and became assaultive when the manager told her the shop was out of that flavor.

“I know the manager tried to offer everything else, and she was just throwing a fit,” Stevens said.

The Mackinac Island Fudge flavor has “been very popular since all this came out,” she said. It consists of vanilla ice cream with swirls of chocolate ice cream studded with chunks of chocolate fudge.

Whenever the shop runs out, counter staff offer customers two options: Moose Tracks, which is similar but substitutes peanut butter for the fudge; and White Russian, which has vanilla and coffee-flavored ice cream.

The case that first thrust Kortes in the spotlight occurred June 11. Bloomfield Township police said she was unhappy with the decorating job on the "Batman v. Superman" cake she had ordered for her son from a Kroger bakery and drop-kicked it, creating a mess in the store. Kortes later told police the cake slipped out of her hands.

Earlier this month, Kortes pleaded no contest in 48th District Court to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. She faces a sentence of up to 90 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.

Kortes has had other brushes with the law. In 2015, she pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge for getting into a physical altercation with a coworker in Troy. In 2003, she was convicted of fourth-degree assault in King County, Wash.

Her attorney, Gerald Gleeson, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Contact staff writer Ann Zaniewski at 313-222-6594 or azaniewski@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter: @AnnZaniewski.