KINGWOOD — A Rowlesburg woman who claimed to be a mermaid was in jail Monday after being charged with battery on a police officer.
Amy Michelle White, 51, was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in lieu of $7,000 bond. According to the criminal complaint by Preston Sheriff’s Sgt. S.R. Mitter:
At 4:55 a.m. Saturday, a newspaper carrier reported that a woman had grabbed the front of her car, hit the hood with her fist, yelled and refused to allow the carriers to leave Oak Street in Rowlesburg.
It was the second day in a row police had complaints of a woman walking in the area and yelling. When Mitter went to the home, White identified herself as “Victoria Princess” and refused to come outside to talk, saying her dog would get out.
White began making signs with her hands. Deputies told her she had to quit bothering people, and she invited them inside and said, “I get it.” White then stepped outside close to Mitter, pushed her and called the deputy a name.
She was arrested, and police found a pipe that smelled of marijuana in her hand. While in custody, White, “would cry, growl, call on the devil, speak in foreign languages, spit, say she was a mermaid and she needed to drink salt water or she would die, and say, for example: Dodge, Ford, Rambler, etc.,” according to the criminal complaint.
Officers were unable to determine at the scene if White was reacting to a drug or has a mental illness, the complaint says.
