Elizabeth Hixson (Broward County Sheriff’s Office).
A 500-pound Florida woman who called police last week and accused her husband of neglecting her — allegedly refusing to change a foot bandage in favor of going “out all day and drinking” — ended up behind bars herself after attacking first responders who tried to arrest and move her out of the house on a stretcher, cops say.
Elizabeth Hixson, 62, allegedly phoned the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on July 8 and asked them to send deputies to her home in West Park after her 67-year-old husband came home drunk and refused to change her foot bandage. Hixson’s arrest report, which was filed by a BSO deputy and posted online Tuesday, detailed how she went after first responders who tried getting the ornery sexagenarian to leave her residence on a stretcher.
Hixson told police that a tussle ensued between her and Hixson’s husband, who was not identified by police in the arrest report. “[The man] did not wish to cooperate and simply explained she fought him and he believed she was having mental issues,” the report says.
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Deputies spoke to both individuals, with Hixson allegedly admitting that “she grabbed [her husband’s] hair, to which he pushed her hand off to break her grip causing him to scratch her with his nails.”
“I did observe a scratch mark,” the BSO deputy wrote in the report about Hixson’s condition. Firefighters and police at the scene tried getting her to go to the hospital in handcuffs, which sparked her alleged attacks on them and medics to try and use a stretcher, police say.
“I went to handcuff her,” the deputy said. “She braced and pulled her hands towards her mouth and opened her mouth as if she was going to bite me. I then pulled my hand back, avoiding being bitten and continued to struggle while handcuffing Elizabeth. After this, I attempted to place Elizabeth on a stretcher to be transported to Memorial Regional Hospital for clearance.”
As the first responders attempted to bring Hixson out, she “struck” a firefighter and tried to “hinder his duties,” according to her arrest report. “It should be noted that a CAD query of this address since June resulted in a minimum of 30 calls for service,” the report says. “Primarily all medical calls, only this case was a call for domestic violence. A FCIC query showed no hits for warrants or protection orders.”
Hixson faces felony charges of third-degree battery, resisting an officer with violence, and battery on a firefighter. She does not have a court date listed online yet.
