Louisiana Tech Police arrested a Bossier City woman Wednesday after she refused to leave a construction site on campus.
Officers responded to a construction site near Tech’s new engineering and science building on Dan Reneau Drive Wednesday morning. Construction workers said a woman was found in a wooden box used for making sidewalk drains. Workers said something appeared to be wrong with her.
Officers approached Morgan Michelle Downs, 29, and asked if she was okay. Downs said she did not like the police and did not need them. She told officers she was doing the job assigned her by God. She refused to provide a name and date of birth and when asked where she lived, Downs said she was from the wooden box she was sitting in.
Ruston Ambulance Service was called to the scene and Downs became loud and excited when officers approached her. She refused to exit the box and Ruston Police officers were called to the scene for assistance. Downs was physically removed from the wooden box and placed under arrest. She was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for disturbing the peace, resisting an officer by force and resisting by refusing to identify herself.
Bail was set at $2,000.
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