A woman who blocked a street in Jasonville with her vehicle, got out and was allegedly screaming and banging on another woman’s vehicle, then started screaming at a police officer from the moment he arrived, told the officer to arrest her. And he did.

Denise Odessa Fougerousse, 48, Jasonville, was arrested on the scene by Officer Ryan Van Horn of the Jasonville Police Department on Monday, August 20.

When she was booked in to the Greene County Jail, her bond was set at $500 surety with ten percent allowed. She posted $50 cash and was released later the same day.

Yesterday, Wednesday, August 29, Greene County Deputy Prosecutor Cheryl Jackson Stone filed a criminal case against Fougerousse to charge her with disorderly conduct involving unreasonable noise, a Class B misdemeanor. Fougerousse is scheduled to appear in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing on September 10.

Officer Van Horn was dispatched around 4:30 p.m. on that Monday to the area of South Horace and Capital Streets after a caller reported Fougerousse was out of control, had stopped her vehicle in the middle of the road, got out and was banging on the window of another woman’s vehicle.

When Van Horn got there, Fougerousse was standing near her vehicle which was parked sideways on Capital Street, blocking both lanes of traffic.

Van Horn said Fougerousse was screaming at him as soon as he got out of his patrol vehicle, telling him to do something about the other woman who Fougerousse said had been driving past her house harassing her family.

Van Horn said he asked Fougerousse multiple times to stop screaming and calm down but she did not stop so he advised her that if she did not stop screaming and creating a scene, she would be arrested for disorderly conduct.

Van Horn reported Fougerousse continued to yell, said she was ready to go to jail, and told him to arrest her. And so, Fougerousse was restrained and placed in his patrol vehicle.

While on the scene, Van Horn talked to a woman sitting in a vehicle nearby with her child. She described an ongoing incident in which Fougerousse was yelling at her at the school as she was picking up her daughter. She said as she was driving away, Fougerousse positioned her vehicle in front of the woman’s vehicle so the woman could not get around her. Then Fougerousse would drive slow then fast. When they got to the area of Horace and Capital, she said Fougerousse parked in the road and got out. That’s when police were called.

When Van Horn returned to his patrol vehicle, he read the Miranda Warning to Fougerousse who then advised the officer she was ready to go to jail and she did not want to speak to him. And then, without being asked, she started talking, and talking, complaining about the other woman.

The probable cause affidavit prepared by Van Horn explains that he made it clear to her why she was going to jail. Van Horn told her it was not because of any encounter between Fougerousse and the other person, it was because of her conduct when the officer arrived on the scene.

When asked if he had heard the officer telling Fougerousse to quiet down, another individual on the scene said he had heard Van Horn ask Fougerousse to calm down at least five times.

Van Horn reported Fougerousse admitted she was out of control, that she has anger issues, and she said her medication doesn’t work.