The city of Bandera and two of its law enforcement personnel are named in a federal lawsuit by the local woman who was stun-gunned last year after refusing to identify herself to an officer handling a code violation at a business where she volunteered.

The petition that Mary Montes’ lawyers filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Antonio accuses the city, City Marshal Will Dietrich and Deputy City Marshal William Smith of violating her constitutional rights, improper training and supervision, and excessive force.

The May 16, 2016, incident began when Smith, who had assumed code enforcement duties only two weeks earlier, informed Montes that city permits were lacking for two banners outside Gold Rush Jewelry.

Montes, then 66, quickly removed the banners but wouldn’t provide her name for inclusion in Smith’s code report, despite being warned that she faced possible arrest over her refusal.

The standoff then turned physical, with Smith holding Montes’ arms as she sat on the store’s floor, leading him to radio for backup at the Cedar Street store, video and audio recordings of the incident show.

Upon arriving, Dietrich commanded Montes to stop resisting and warned her that she would be stunned if she did not submit to being handcuffed. Montes responded that she couldn’t put her arms behind her back because Smith was twisting them.

The lawsuit asserts that Montes was not actively struggling, but rather passively resisting, and implored Dietrich to help her.

“Please, please, he’s hurting my arms, I’ll put them behind me if he lets go,” it quotes Montes as telling Dietrich.

But it says only 14 seconds later Dietrich stunned Montes, who was then cuffed and charged with resisting arrest and failure to identify herself. She provided her name once in custody. The charges were later dropped.

It was the first instance in which a Taser was used on a suspect since his hiring in late 2014 as marshal in the Cowboy Capital of the World, said Dietrich. He could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Montes, a former Army medical technician, said both officers should be punished for the episode that she claims caused muscle spasms that may have contributed to a fall two weeks later in which she broke both wrists.

But no discipline was proposed or enforced by then-City Administrator Mike Garr, who did recommend policy and procedural changes after reviewing the incident.

Garr’s report, included in the plaintiff’s 113-page legal filing, notes that Dietrich hadn’t wanted his office to assume code enforcement duties after the city’s civilian inspector was fired, predicting “it would be a public relations nightmare.”

Dietrich said he counseled Smith and filed a letter in Smith’s file noting that a person who is not under lawful arrest is not required to identify himself or herself to peace officers.

Montes said Tuesday that she never received an apology from the city, which refused her recent demand for $300,000 in exchange for not filing a lawsuit.

Her lawyers, Brian Jones and Daniel MacNeil, wouldn’t say what amount in damages they hope to recover from the defendants with the suit.

In addition to pain and emotional trauma, the petition claims Montes suffered damage to her reputation and now has fear and anxiety regarding the marshal’s office.

“The city’s failure to discipline Dietrich or Smith creates a custom in the city of Bandera,” the suit alleges. “This custom violates the fourth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution.”

Linda Coones, the current city administrator, couldn’t be reached Tuesday.