A woman arrested in December and accused of punching another woman while she was shopping was arrested again in January. This time she’s accused of getting into a different woman’s van without permission.

Kyla Diane Sharp, 41, Bloomfield, was arrested late Friday, January 24, by Deputy David Elmore of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.

Deputy Elmore, the investigating officer, was dispatched along with Deputy Zach Goad and officers from the Linton Police Department on Friday night, January 24, to a residence on West County Road 230 North in the Linton area after a woman called 911 and reported Kyla Sharp was trying to get into her van parked at her home. She also said Sharp had threatened to beat her and her children up.

When Deputy Elmore arrived on the scene, LPD officers were talking to Sharp and Deputy Elmore said Sharp was acting erratically.

Sharp had been a passenger in the woman’s van earlier in the day and while they were stopped at a convenience store, Sharp had taken a very long time looking for $20 Sharp said she lost in the woman’s van. By the time they got back to the woman’s home, they were in a verbal argument and the woman told Sharp to get out of the van.

The woman said after Sharp got out, she (the woman who owned the van) went into her house and locked the van. Sharp allegedly then went to a neighbor’s house then came back but she was told to leave the property. A family member later said Sharp was inside the van. The woman said she locked it using a key fob which made the horn honk when it locked, so she didn’t know how Sharp got back in the van.

Sharp was taken into custody and booked in around 11:45 p.m. Her bond was set at $500 surety with ten percent cash allowed. She has since posted $50 and been released.

She’s due in court on Thursday, February 6, for an initial hearing on a charge of unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle, a Class B misdemeanor.

Sharp has another case pending against her.

She was arrested by LPD Officer John Agan a few days before Christmas and has since been charged with battery resulting in bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor.

In that case, LPD Sgt. Logan Hobbs, the investigating officer, said he and Officer Agan were dispatched to the Walmart store on December 19 about a fight inside the store between two women, Sharp and a different woman – not the one involved in the van incident.

The alleged female victim explained she was in a relationship with a man who had custody of his and Sharp’s children and the children were with the woman while she was shopping. She said Sharp was also in the store, saw them and started screaming obscenities. The woman tried to avoid Sharp but alleged Sharp began punching her.

Sgt. Hobbs said he talked to witnesses and their accounts corroborated the woman’s story. He also reviewed surveillance footage of the incident and reported it showed Sharp striking the woman and lunging toward her.