By Pat Culverhouse

Multiple physical encounters at a local tattoo parlor have landed a 48-year-old Texas woman behind bars for aggressively engaging customers and first responders.

Minden Chief of Police Jared McIver said Danyale Lefay Gutierrez of Lumberton, Texas is looking at a variety of charges following an incident that spilled from the local business onto Minden’s Main Street.

McIver said officers responded to reports of a disturbance around 10:30 p.m. Thursday where Gutierrez allegedly entered the tattoo parlor while in a highly intoxicated state. While inside the parlor, she allegedly engaged in multiple fights with customers.

“Our officers had to physically restrain her, and she refused many opportunities to identify herself,” McIver said. “She was highly intoxicated, belligerent and violent to law enforcement, E.M.S.and her victims while at the scene.”

Charges against Gutierrez include two counts of simple battery, engaging in fistic encounter, failure to identify, resisting an officer, obstructing public passageways and appearing in an intoxicated state. Her total bond has been set at $4,250.

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