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Over 70 text messages in violation of a protective order leads to jail

A Bloomfield woman was arrested after calling repeatedly and sending a slew of text messages to her ex-husband in violation of a protective order.

Mary-Claire Brewer

Mary-Claire Brewer, 24, Bloomfield, was arrested by Deputy Camron Frye of the Greene County Sheriff's Department early Wednesday, July 6.

Deputy Frye was dispatched at 12:12 AM to investigate a complaint that Mary-Claire Brewer was violating a protective order by calling and texting her ex-husband. A protective order issued in early June specifically stated that Brewer could communicate with her ex by text only about their children and parenting time implementation.

When Deputy Frye arrived at the ex-husband’s residence, the ex showed him the call log on his phone that showed 20 unanswered calls from Brewer. When the deputy looked at the text chain for Brewer, he reported seeing a long chain of messages. Several messages pertained to the children and were not a violation of the order, but there were approximately 70 text messages that went unanswered by the ex-husband that had nothing to do with the children or with parenting time. Deputy Frye reported these messages said things like “Ur pathetic don't talk to me…,” “deadbeat,” and “I'm more of a man than you.”

When Deputy Frye knocked on the door of Brewer’s residence in Bloomfield, she did not want to answer the door and first told the deputy that Brewer was not there, then asked him why he wanted to talk to her. She asked the deputy to leave a note – he declined, and wanted to know if she was going to be arrested. After a verbal back and forth through the closed door, when Brewer did open the door, she was placed under arrest, but when he attempted to handcuff her, she pulled her hands from her back to her front and tried to move away from the deputy.

At 1:32 AM, Brewer was booked into the Greene County Jail where she was being held without bond.

Brewer is scheduled to appear for her initial hearing in Greene Superior Court on Monday morning on charges of:

  • Invasion of privacy in violation of a protective order, a Class A misdemeanor, and

  • Resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor.