Daniel Prince
May 11, 2023
Woman accused the victim of stealing metal in her neighborhood
A Union woman faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for attempting to hit someone with her car in the Family Dollar parking lot. The incident took place Monday morning around 9:46 a.m. PFC Cody Hill responded to Family Dollar for a report of a suspicious person. He was told the complainant would be in a gray pickup truck and he was being followed by a person in a white Mercedes. The complainant stated the person in the Mercedes had tried to hit the passenger of his vehicle. Hill found the vehicles in the parking lot, and he spoke with the complainant. He said the person in the other vehicle started yelling that they stole something, and he said he didn’t steal anything. He told Hill that he picks up scrap metal from the side of the road that people throw out to be trash. He said when he was in the parking lot, the Mercedes tried to block him in, and then it tried to hit his passenger with the vehicle.
Hill then spoke to the occupant of the Mercedes, identified as 44-year-old Michelle Denise Eison. Eison stated that the complainants were on her block stealing metal. She would not tell Hill specifically where the alleged theft occurred, telling him instead to ask them. She also would not give Hill her name or address, stating that he knew who she was and where she lived.
Hill went back and spoke with the complainant and asked him where he got the metal, and he told Hill he got it from the side of the road. He also said the people of the city told him that if people set the material on the side of the road to be thrown away, the material is first-come, first-served. Hill spoke with the passenger, who said he tried to approach the Mercedes to ask what was wrong, and when he did, the driver tried to run him over with her car. Hill went back to Eison’s vehicle to ask her about it, and she said she was not going to tell what happened.