Woman allegedly assaulted cops, tried to pull penis off Oak Harbor man

A Port Townsend woman is facing charges for allegedly assaulting Oak Harbor police officers and trying to pull a man’s genitals off, according to court documents.

A Port Townsend woman is facing charges for allegedly assaulting Oak Harbor police officers and trying to pull a man’s genitals off, according to court documents.

Prosecutors charged 25-year-old Jeanette M. Narverud in Island County Superior Court Oct. 7 with two counts of third-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree assault, a domestic violence crime.

Oak Harbor police officers responded to a report of an assault on Northwest Oxford Place on the night of Oct. 3. Officer Lolmaugh saw a woman, later identified as Narverud, trying to hit another woman outside the house, according to his report.

Lolmaugh told Narverud to get on the ground or he would Taze her; she came at him in an aggressive manner, he wrote.

The officer struggled with Narverud to try to get control. She allegedly resisted, kicking him in the head and scratching his arm. Two other officers arrived to help and ended up applying a Taser in order to get her to comply. She later tried to kick Lolmaugh in the groin, the report states.

At the jail, she had to be forcibly removed from the police car and placed in a restraining chair. She threatened to slit the officers’ throats and tried to bite Lolmaugh, the report states.

The resident of the house reported that he was watching a movie in bed with Narverud when she “suddenly went crazy” and slapped him on the head.

“He said she then reached down, grabbed his penis and tried to pull it off,” Lolmaugh wrote.

The man told Narverud to leave and she allegedly slapped his roommate on the way out.

The officer noted that she smelled of alcohol and spoke incoherently. More than two and a half hours after she was arrested, a breathalyzer test measures her blood-alcohol level at 0.218 percent.

Narverud appeared in court Monday. Island County Chief Criminal Prosecutor Eric Ohme asked the judge to set her bail at $10,000 based on the risk that she may commit another violent crimes. He said she was charged with domestic-violence-related crimes before in California but apparently wasn’t convicted.

Her attorney, Andrew Rice of Coupeville, argued that she should be released. He said she lives and works in Port Townsend, which provides a sizable distance between her and the alleged victims.

Judge Vickie Churchill agreed that the allegations are disturbing, but said Narverud didn’t pose enough of a risk of violence to be held. Churchill released her on her personal recognizance.

If convicted of the charges against her, Narverud could face up to a year in jail.