GRANITE FALLS — A woman was booked into the Snohomish County Jail after calling 911 to ask that an officer arrive quickly as she allegedly threatened her husband with a hatchet.
“Get here now before I kill (him),” she reportedly told a dispatcher.
The call occurred Saturday night.
When a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy arrived, he could see through a thin curtain in the front window of the single-wide trailer. The deputy reported seeing a man with a beard with his hands out toward a woman who was holding a hatchet over her shoulder.
She swung the weapon toward the man, the deputy wrote.
The deputy announced his presence and ordered the woman to come outside and to drop the hatchet, which she did, court papers said.
The woman, 32, also allegedly threatened to kill the man in his sleep.
When the deputy read the woman her rights and asked if she understood, the suspect allegedly said she did and that it wasn’t her “first rodeo.”
Also in the home were the woman’s mother-in-law, who was awake, and two young children, who were sleeping.
The woman allegedly told the deputy that she had been drinking vodka and smoking “a lot” of marijuana, court papers said.
The man, 30, was not injured. He declined to complete a written statement and said he wasn’t afraid of the woman.
She was arrested for investigation of felony domestic-violence assault and harassment with threats to kill.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.
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