A 35-year-old Blount County woman is behind bars after authorities say she shot her husband's arm with a shotgun and then bit a lawman during her arrest.

District Attorney Pamela Casey today announced charges against Stacey Gladden. The Cleveland woman was arrested Saturday after the attack on her husband.

Authorities said Gladden shot her husband with a shotgun at his home. The injury was so severe, Casey said, the husband's arm had to be amputated. After the shooting, Gladden left the couple's Highway 160 home and drove to the Busy Bee in Allgood. When officers went to arrest her, she tried to take a gun from an officer and bit him on the finger.

Casey praised the work of law enforcement officers from the Blount County Sheriff's Office and the Oneonta Police Department.

Gladden is charged with attempted murder in the wounding of her husband, and second-degree assault for the injury to the officer. She is being held without bond in the Blount County Jail pending a mental evaluation.