Felony Justice
‘You are allergic? Good!’ Girl who launched bees to protest eviction is sentenced to six months in jail
A beekeeper has been sentenced to 6 months in jail after utilizing honeybees as a weapon towards deputies in an eviction fall 2022.
Three and a half years in the past, as sheriff’s deputies stood on the open double doorways of a mansion in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, about to execute an eviction order, an SUV with a trailer carrying crates of beehives pulled into the semicircular driveway.
Rebecca Woods, the motive force carrying a beekeeper’s go well with, began releasing the bees to benefit from the “pretty flowering panorama” on the residence of her buddy, a person who “was virtually 80 years previous” and was a most cancers affected person, in response to the New York Occasions.
A video posted by MassLive.com reveals a Hampden County, Massachusetts, deputy saying, “Hey, hey, hey, she has a truck filled with bees,” and one other responding, “What?”
A tussle ensued, and Woods was thrown to the bottom by two deputies. When some deputies said that they have been allergic to bees, in response to the sheriff’s workplace, she replied “You’re allergic? Good!”
A number of officers have been stung on their heads and faces—with one requiring remedy at a hospital. Woods, now 59, admitted in a district courtroom in Springfield, Massachusetts, this month that she launched the bees to save lots of the person from eviction.
Although the jury acquitted her of seven felonies, Woods was discovered responsible on 4 misdemeanor counts of assault and battery and two counts of reckless assault, She was sentenced to 6 months in county jail.
The New York Times and the Boston Globe have protection.
Finally, her buddy misplaced his residence. Hundreds of bees died within the encounter, in response to the New York Occasions.
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