PEORIA — A 45-year-old woman was given two misdemeanor citations and a city ordinance violation after two people reported they saw her urinating in the frozen pizza freezer at a Peoria Kroger grocery store early Thursday.

The woman was cited for criminal damage to property, disorderly conduct, and public indecency.

Police were called about 1:50 a.m. Thursday to the store at 801 W. Lake Ave. after a customer in the frozen pizza aisle notified a store clerk that he saw the woman pull down her pants and begin to urinate in the freezer.

“Shocked and appalled,” according to the police report, the man asked what she was doing and she placed an index finger to her mouth “as if to hush him.”

He alerted the clerk, who went to the frozen pizza freezer and witnessed the act herself.

When asked why, the woman reportedly told the clerk that she “had to go.” The clerk informed the woman there were restrooms in the front of the store, then called the police. The woman appeared to be intoxicated, according to the report.

The store had to throw out 10 Jack’s brand frozen pizzas, valued together at $33.34 The woman was told she was barred from Kroger.

Kroger spokesman John Elliot released this statement: "Kroger takes food safety and sanitation very seriously and the store team reacted appropriately in response to this bizarre incident. The entire contents of that freezer section were removed. The freezer unit was partially disassembled and the entire freezer unit was sanitized. No food product will be offered for sale that was even remotely impacted by this incident."