A Marion woman is facing felony charges in Hale County after authorities say she stole a bulldog from a Greensboro trailer park and then struck a corrections officer at the county jail on the day she was booked.
Chloe Elyse Hicks, 18, of Marion, was arrested August 14 on a charge of theft of property, third degree, according to Hale County District Court records. A sworn complaint states that Hicks took a one-year-old bulldog on August 12 from a trailer park on Alabama 69 near Bus Shop Road while the dog’s owner was at work.
According to the complaint, Hicks admitted taking the dog after being read her rights and said no one had given her permission, and the owner had sent word several times asking that the dog be returned. The owner told authorities her son had paid $1,000 for the dog a year earlier.
A second complaint states that on August 14, while Hicks was an inmate at the Hale County Jail, a corrections officer moving her to another cell gave her several warnings and used pepper spray after she became noncompliant and tried to exit the dorm.
The complaint states Hicks then struck the officer in the right temple with a closed fist before other inmates pulled her away. Hicks was arrested August 17 on a charge of assault, second degree, court records show.
Bond was set at $15,000 in the theft case and $10,000 in the assault case.
