A Schuylkill Township woman has been charged with assaulting several state troopers who attempted to take her into security for trespassing.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Cpl. Jonathan Hontz of the Pennsylvania State Police, Frackville barracks in the case against Karen Heon:

At 8:37 a.m. on July 1, Hontz responded to a home in the 100 block of Dobson Street, Mary D, due to trooper Nicholas Prior having been cut on his left bicep and trooper Dominic Viscomi having been kicked in the left thigh by Heon, 61, of Mary D.

Price and Viscomi had responded to the home due to Heon trespassing on the victim’s property. The victims had told Heon to leave the property to which she then ran around to the backyard.

Price said Heon then ran from the back of the residence and was looking for her dog. Price said he told Heon that he and Viscomi needed to speak with her, but she yelled (an expletive) and began to walk away.

Price told Heon several times to stop, but she refused to listen and walked away. Heon went toward a garage and attempted to put in the code to the door’s keypad in order to enter it.

Price then attempted to detain Heon, at which time she kicked Viscomi in the left thigh. Price then assisted Heon to the ground and she actively resisted arrest.

During this time, Heon had caused a cut to Price’s left arm. She was eventually placed in handcuffs and in a patrol unit, but she then ran out of it prior to being secured.

Trooper Trevor Skripko said that he had responded in order to canvas the area and find Heon. At that time, Skripko had flagged down two more victims and a witness when one of the victims was in his backyard. Heon approached him, relating that she was looking for her dog.

The victim told Heon that she needed to leave the property to which Heon had gone to another home and began to ring the doorbell multiple times. The victim said Heon came back to his back door and he yelled at Heon again telling her not to go inside his residence.

The victim said that he then observed Heon open the back door and enter his residence.

Skripko said that another victim was sitting on the couch in their finished basement when she observed Heon walking into the basement and ask where her dog was. The victim did not know Heon and had never seen her around. She related that the other victim then came and told Heon to leave, which she did.

Hontz read Heon her Miranda Warnings, which she said she understood, and related that she did enter the victim’s residence and properties after having been told multiple times not to.

Heon also said that she did not care that she kicked Viscomi and caused a cut to Price, as she was attempting to find her dog.

Heon faces charges on two counts each of aggravated assault, criminal trespass, simple assault and disorderly conduct, along with one count of resisting arrest.

Heon is currently incarcerated in the Schuylkill County Prison in lieu of $50,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on July 23 before District Judge David A. Plachko of Port Carbon.