Police: Woman facing domestic battery charge bites officer

A Crestview woman awaiting trial on a domestic battery charge is accused of biting a policeman attempting to arrest her for violating the terms of her pretrial release.

Ashley Nicole Sims, 21, of the 600 block of Alabama Street, is charged with resisting arrest with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer.

Police responded on March 1 to the home of Sims' ex-boyfriend, who told police he found Sims in his bedroom going through his papers despite a pretrial court order that she have “no contact” with him and come no closer than 500 feet to his residence.

Sims was scheduled in court March 16 on a charge of domestic battery, with her ex-boyfriend as the reported victim.

The boyfriend told responding officers Sims fled when he called police. When police attempted to arrest Sims later at her residence, she tried to flee, according to her arrest report.

While two officers were attempting to subdue her, Sims bit one on the finger, the report states. The other officer sustained minor scrapes to his hand, fingers and knee during the scuffle, according to the report.

“Please don’t charge me with resisting,” Sims is quoted as saying in the report. “I will do anything. I’ll write an apology letter. I don’t want my son taken away.”

Sims is in custody at the Okaloosa County Jail and is scheduled for a March 6 court appearance.