Posted on 06/30/2023 12:22:27 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A woman accused of releasing bees on Sheriff’s deputies to stop an eviction at a Longmeadow home this past October was in court on Wednesday.
Woman given bees back after alleged attack during Longmeadow eviction Rebecca Susan Woods of Hadley appeared in Springfield District Court Wednesday morning.
According to the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office, on October 12th, Woods pulled up to an ongoing eviction on Memory Lane in Longmeadow in a blue Nissan Xterra. Woods left her dog in the car and immediately went to the bee hives being towed by her SUV, and tried to open the lids to unleash the bees.
A sheriff’s deputy tried to stop Woods, but she made the bees angry and they started to circle the area. Woods then smashed the lid and flipped a hive off the flatbed, which made the bees very aggressive. The bees stung several officers, some of whom are allergic, and bystanders who were watching nearby. One officer was taken to the hospital for bee stings.
Woods put on a professional beekeeper suit to protect herself, then carried a tower of bees near the front door of the home to try and stop the eviction, which has been stop-and-go for nearly two years. At the front door of the home, she tried to agitate the bees more and was arrested by Sheriff’s deputies and booked at the Western Massachusetts Reginal Women’s Correctional Facility.
Woods was released without bail and charged with the following:
Assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (4 counts) Assault by means of a dangerous weapon (3 counts) Disorderly conduct She is due back in court on September 12.
This is my home town! The crazy runs deep with this woman. That’s why we tend to keep the Hadley folks at arm’s length.
Bee Movie 🎥
Every day that goes by and I read the news of the horrific behavior people are engaging in, I become more and more a fan of an eye for an eye kind of justice.
Sounds like a real-life version of a dungeons and dragon spell “insect plague”.
She might bee a wiccan.
Swarm! Swarm!
Shouldn’t have sent female officers and, honestly, who wears a beehive anymore?
Well-played!! 😂😆🤣🤣😄😛😜
The funny thing is the house they were trying to clear out is in the rich part of a wealthy town. Probably a million and a half, which in Western MA is in the top 1% of homes.
The house has an indoor basketball court. Crazy rich people.
She needs to beehive herself.
No video footage? This sounds hilarious. (I am a bee keeper.)
Do a search on youtube for real estate and landlord news.
Must be a Russ Meyer movie /Seinfeld
They ever figure out a remedy for the viraro mites.
They are a scourge from coast to coast.
I got out of bees in 1995 when they first made an appearance.
I was hopeing they had figured how to combat them.
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