Police tackled and arrested a woman who was experiencing a mental health crisis and was refusing to leave Sherwood High School on Monday.
The Sherwood police department said the unidentified woman entered the school from the front office at 11:55 a.m. and was “acting erratic.” She did not respond to school staff and had no reason to be at the school, police said.
The school’s resource officer, James Wolfer, responded and asked the woman to leave multiple times, but she refused, police said. Wolfer made a “physical takedown,” and put handcuffs on the woman.
Police said she continued to resist, and more officers responded to the scene. She was taken outside and put in a patrol car. No other force was used during the encounter, police said. School officials put the campus on lockdown out of an abundance of caution and to see if anyone else was with the woman. There wasn’t, police said.
Officers called the Washington County Mental Health team to investigate. The team determined the woman should be placed on a mental health hold, and she was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation, police said.
Police did not identify the woman, citing the mental health component as the reason.
She also had a misdemeanor warrant for failing to appear in court in Washington County, police said.
– Austin De Dios; adedios@oregonian.com; @austindedios; 503-319-9744
