VIDEO: Woman Bites Joliet Policeman, Arrested Woman Screams, Sings In Spanish

JOLIET, IL — Joliet Patch has obtained body camera footage of what turned out to be one of the more difficult arrests for the Joliet Police Department in recent weeks. The footage shows the Aug. 18 Super 8 motel parking lot arrest of 26-year-old Ingrid Acosta Villarraga, who hails from Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Aug. 20, Joliet Patch reported that the 26-year-old woman was booked into the Will County jail following a weeknight arrest by Joliet police on two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, aggravated assault, criminal trespass and resisting a peace officer.

The Ohio woman had been kicked out of the Super 8 property near Larkin Avenue and McDonough Street, and when Joliet police officers responded to the scene around 7:35 p.m., they found several garbage bags of her possessions, along with a giant teddy bear, already placed near the sidewalk.

By the end of the ordeal, it took several officers — perhaps around a dozen —to swarm the scene and help with the arrest or be ready on standby to ensure safety.

"Psycho!" one Joliet police officer exclaimed. "I think she did bite me."

The officer who said he was bitten by the woman was one of the first responders to the Super 8 on McDonough. The call for service came regarding a transient woman who had been banned from setting foot on the motel property but still there, refusing to leave again.

"You need to stay off the property, or else you are going to get arrested," the officer informs her at 7:39 p.m.

"You speak Spanish?" he inquires.

"Only Spanish, I'm sorry," she tells him.

Based on the body camera video, the woman had her smartphone set up to translate the English language into Spanish, although at times during her interaction, the officer tried speaking to her in Spanish, too.

"You need to go over there! I keep telling you," the officer instructed her, pointing to her possessions that were put near the street curb.

Moments later, Acosta Villarraga suddenly began crying uncontrollably. Then she ignored the officer and began briskly walking toward the Super 8 entrance. As the officer tried to stop her, she started screaming.

"OK, we're done. She's trying to bite me," he told fellow officers over his dispatch radio. "Do not f****** bite me! Do not bite me!"

In the footage, Joliet police took the woman to the pavement, where she appeared to continue struggling with them.

Joliet Police Sgt. Brian Montello arrived on the scene to supervise and help direct the situation. For much of the arrest, the woman sang songs in Spanish as she lay on the pavement while the female officers performed a pat-down search.

"She had two phones," one of the officers revealed. "Put her in the back (seat). Roll her toward you."