HUNTINGTON BEACH – A woman whose tirade against her roommate was videotaped and went viral was arraigned in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday for a variety of charges.

Laura Angela Cox, 47, of Huntington Beach was charged on suspicion of driving under the influence of methamphetamine, battery against a cohabitant and vandalism resulting in less than $400 in damages. Cox was in custody as of Tuesday afternoon, but information on her bail amount was not immediately available.

If convicted, Cox faces a maximum sentence of four years in county jail, according to the District Attorney’s Office. She’s due back in court for a bail hearing Sept. 12.

The YouTube video, titled “Neighbors from hell Huntington Beach, CA,” shows a woman, who police say is Cox, exit her parked car, yell profanities and tell a gray-haired man riding a scooter to move out of her way. When the man tells her to calm down, she screams: “I am calm!”

The woman then slaps and kicks her tailgate before pushing the man to the ground. She then gets back in the car and drives in reverse over the scooter, narrowly missing the man.

After she drives away, the man gets to his feet and yells: “I’m calling the police! You’re going to jail!”

Police received the call about the incident in the 7800 block of Liberty Drive at 11:44 a.m. Sunday and officers stopped Cox’s car shortly after, said Lt. Mitch O’Brien of the Huntington Beach Police Department. Officers then went to Cox’s residence and to interview her roommate.

“He (was) uncooperative with officers and said nothing happened,” O’Brien said, adding that police saw the video after they had arrested Cox.

O’Brien said the man’s scooter was still functional when officers arrived. In the video, he gets up and walks after he’s pushed over.

Sarah Oliver, who lives at the same apartment complex as Cox and her roommate, wrote in an email that she caught the altercation on video. She decided to start recording after hearing Cox and her roommate arguing in the driveway.

“I can normally hear her yelling or banging on stuff so loudly I can hear it over my TV,” Oliver said.

Oliver said she started filming Cox’s behavior in the apartment complex’s driveway about a year ago to show her friends.

“When this started up on Sunday that’s what it was mainly going to be for, but it went really far this time,” she said.

“After I recorded this and she left, all of my neighbors and I that were home met up in the driveway to check on him and called 911,” Oliver said.

This is the first YouTube video of Cox that Oliver has posted to the website, Reddit. As of Tuesday evening, the video had more than 1,940,000 views on YouTube.

“That’s insane,” Oliver said.

Contact the writer: 714-704-3704 or dlanghorne@ocregister.com