DAYTONA BEACH — A 44-year-old woman faces a felony assault charge after police said she tried to attack a Daytona Beach officer with a metal windshield wiper in the middle of Nova Road.

It took four police officers to subdue Reina Pena Fuentes on Monday morning as she swatted the wiper at one officer, an arrest report states.

The windshield wiper had been yanked off the minivan of Nichole Dinda of Daytona Beach, Dinda said Tuesday in a phone interview. Before police arrived on scene in the middle of Nova near Madison Avenue, Dinda was driving on Nova when she said a woman ran in front of her van, stopped abruptly and began dancing.

Dinda said she was dumbfounded at first, but then drove around the suspect to the traffic light ahead.

"She started running after me," Dinda said. "At the next light she was screaming at me."

Dinda told police Pena Fuentes tried to pry open her driver's side door, but couldn't because it was locked. According to police, the suspect then broke the driver's side mirror and tore off the wiper.

Terrified, Dinda drove into the Subaru dealership on Nova.

"I was crying," Dinda said. "The people at the dealership got me out of the car, gave me something to drink and called 9-1-1."

Pena Fuentes, who has no criminal record but was taken into custody under the Baker Act in 2011, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief with property damage. She is being held on $2,750 bail.