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Woman charged in Mar-a-Lago chase refuses to appear in court
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Connecticut opera singer charged with using an SUV to blast through barricades outside of President Donald Trump's Florida estate, drawing law enforcement gunfire, refused to appear in court Saturday, delaying her initial appearance.
© ASSOCIATED PRESS This driver's license photo shows Hannah Eileen Roemhild the driver of the vehicle authorities say officers fired shots at that breached security at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in West Palm Beach,
Palm Beach County Judge Ted Booras said Hannah Roemhild's first hearing would be held Monday if she could be brought from the jail to the court without endangering herself or deputies, local media reports.
Roemhild, 30, is charged with two state counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer after Friday's wild chase through Palm Beach and past the president's Mar-a-Lago club. She is being held at the Palm Beach County jail without bond. Officials have said Roemhild was “obviously impaired” and they do not believe she targeted the president or Mar-a-Lago. He was not present.
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TV video shows a dazed Roemheld showing a blank expression as she was handcuffed and placed into a patrol car.
Roemheld has appeared in several Connecticut operas and said on social media recently that she had an unspecified performance scheduled in Palm Beach this past week.
Marilyn Malcarne, a Connecticut friend of the Roemhild family, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the woman's alleged behavior is completely out of character and she “wouldn't hurt a soul.”
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