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REPORT: Call for stabbing ends without injury; woman tased, jailed during incident

Jessi Puckett

A call came into 911 from a third party claiming that a woman was trying to stab a man with scissors and sent emergency personnel flying toward a Piedmont Highway address for the second time in days.

When they arrived they found a couple arguing, no one injured and ultimately were forced to take a woman to jail after her angry outbursts ended with her being tased twice while resisting attempts to put the cuffs on during the Saturday incident.

Polk County Police arrested Jessi Lee Puckett, 34, of a Piedmont Highway address in the Cedartown area on charges of obstructing law enforcement officers and simple assault after they arrived to find Puckett and a male arguing.

Officers had been out earlier in the week after the male called 911 claiming Puckett was attempting suicide during a February 4 argument. He was at work at the time when the argument began over the phone, but when first responders arrived last Tuesday they found no one injured and nothing wrong.

This time, the male was alleged to have called a relative claiming that Puckett was stabbing him with scissors, and in turn 911 was called and sent out to help.

Instead they found the pair arguing as their relationship was ending, the man attempting to get his belongings and Puckett became “irate and began yelling” for officers to leave, that she hadn’t done anything wrong and wasn’t going to jail.

Due to her behavior, police determined that she was going to be taken into custody for hindering their investigation of the incident. Puckett began to resist when officers tried to put handcuffs on her wrists, to the point where she put her arms between her legs and squeezed them together to prevent police from taking her into custody.

The officer who reported on the incident used his taser to drive stun Puckett twice in the back until she gave up, allowed officers to put handcuffs on and carried her to a patrol vehicle.

“During this whole encounter Jessi kept screaming saying she did not do anything and that she couldn’t go back to jail,” the report noted.

Further investigation was undertaken on the 911 calls made on Feb. 4 and the Saturday incident. Additional charges may be pending after police went back to listen to the 911 calls as their response took multiple officers away from other duties during two separate incidents within a week.

Puckett in the meantime was booked into the Polk County Jail and faces misdemeanor charges. Bond had not yet been set following the weekend arrest as of this posting, and she remained in custody as of Monday morning, February 10.


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