A Boone County woman has been arrested after she walked into a home and started putting on the homeowner’s clothes and telling the cops who were trying to arrest her “Don’t come in here, I’m naked!” Forty-nine-year-old Ellen Anne McGehee of Alpena was arrested on five charges, one of them a felony for the incident.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the ordeal started when deputies responded to a business in Alpena where McGehee was hitting the building with a ten foot piece of PVC pipe. A deputy tried to make contact with her, but McGehee walked away. She told the deputy her clothes were wet and she needed to change and she went into a house a short distance away.
The deputy went to the house and another female came to the door and said she was the homeowner, but the deputy spotted McGehee behind the homeowner. The deputy asked McGehee to step outside but she refused and walked away.
The deputy followed her to the bedroom and discovered McGehee had locked herself in the bedroom of the residence. The deputy knocked and McGehee said “Don’t come in here, I’m naked!” The deputy noted in his report she had removed her clothing and was changing into the homeowner’s clothing. The deputy asked the homeowner if McGehee lived there and she said “She just walked in here.” The homeowner told the deputy she has told McGehee numerous times in the past she is not welcome in her home and not to walk into her house.
Another deputy arrived, and after a struggle, they were able to take McGehee into custody. On the way to the jail, McGehee was able to slip one of her hands out of the handcuffs.
McGehee is facing a felony charge of residential burglary and misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief, resisting arrest, fleeing on foot and disorderly conduct. She was also ordered to have no contact with the home owner. She is free after posting $25,000 bond.
McGehee has eight previous felony arrests in Boone and Carroll counties.
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