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Police arrested an Orangeburg woman Friday, alleging she stabbed another woman in the eye with an ink pen during a dispute at a drive-through window.
Lakesha Lavonya Meeks, 26, of 153 Tyler Road was charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
The altercation happened around 7:30 p.m. Friday at a John C. Calhoun Drive fast-food restaurant drive-through.
A Leesville woman told police that she was in her car waiting on her order at Central Park when a woman in a vehicle behind her began yelling racial slurs, cursing at her and blowing her car horn. The Leesville woman said the other woman then got out of her car and began yelling obscenities at her, according to an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety incident report.
The Leesville woman said she leaned out of her car and asked the other woman to calm down and refrain from using foul language because she had small children in her car.
She said the other woman then closed her fist around an ink pen and punched her in the face, stabbing her in the corner of her eye with the pen at the same time. The other woman then sped away in a light-colored Honda, she said.
Police arrived to find the Leesville woman holding ice to her eye. The officers noted she was bleeding from the corner of her eye closest to her nose.
The woman gave a description of the subject’s vehicle, which was immediately given out to other officers.
Officers on Russell Street spotted a vehicle matching the description at the Dairy-O. Police stopped the vehicle and detained the woman.
A small child in the car asked why his mother was being arrested. An officer responded to the child by saying his mother had hit someone.
"He said, ‘No, she stabbed them with a pen,’" the incident report said.
The officer asked where that pen was and the child said it was in her purse. Officers retrieved a pen from the woman’s purse and asked the child if that was the pen he saw. The child confirmed it was.
Emergency Medical Services personnel treated the Leesville woman at the scene but she didn’t want to be taken to the hospital.
Assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
T&D Staff Writer Richard Walker can be reached by e-mail at rwalker@timesanddemocrat.com or by telephone at 803-533-5516.