Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa)

A Dubuque woman was arrested Tuesday after she called 9-1-1 four times in one hour for non-emergencies, then punched one police officer and spit at another, police said.

Alma M. Shafer, 62, of 2080 Pasadena Drive, No. 4, was charged Wednesday with two counts of assaulting a police officer, a serious misdemeanor.

According to a criminal complaint, a woman called 9-1-1 at 7:04 p.m. Tuesday and was speaking unintelligibly. The dispatcher advised the woman not to call except for an emergency. The same woman called back a short time later and said something similar to “I’m trying to get the 589 guy.”

At 7:10 p.m., officers were dispatched to 2080 Pasadena Drive, No. 4, which had been identified as the location from which the calls came. Police said Shafer told officers she was trying to call 411 for her husband. Officers again told her not to call 9-1-1 unless it was an emergency.

Reports state that Shafer called 9-1-1 again at 7:44 p.m. to say she did not want officers on her property and then again at 8:05 p.m. to complain that she couldn’t get her back fixed “because of (President Barack) Obama.” Officers then went to Shafer’s home to arrest her, and she resisted, they reported. She punched one officer in the chest and spit at another, they said.

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