Franklin Police Officer Assaulted While Making Arrest

Officers were summoned to Lifetime Athletic to help with a woman who was creating a disturbance.

Arriving officers found Lisa Flowers Gary, 59, drunk and belligerent. After she was highly uncooperative, officers arrested Gary. She resisted, kicking an officer in the face, chest, and stomach while being placed into the back seat of a police car. On her way to jail, Gary mentioned several firearms she owns, making repeated threats to harm the officer and his family.

Gary was charged with Simple Assault.

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