Woman allegedly axes boyfriend's home

BAYVIEW — A woman was arrested for allegedly ransacking her boyfriend’s home and causing damage with two axes early Saturday morning following a Christmas party.

According to a Kootenai County Sheriff’s report, Patricia F. Yager, 57, was arrested for aggravated assault, malicious injury to property and intentional destruction of a telecommunication line.

In the report, deputies said Yager, who has been living with her boyfriend for the past five months, had been drinking and was slurring her words when they arrived at the scene. Inside the home, they found the victim and another man who was flagged down to call police after Yager allegedly became violent.

“When I walked into the residence, I noticed it was a chaotic scene and there were numerous household items strewn about the floor. The front door was completely shattered and the shattered glass debris was all over the entryway of the house and into the living room,” the deputy wrote. “I noticed two large axes on the floor of the living room and dining room.”

The deputy interviewed Yager’s boyfriend, who said they had been hosting friends for a Christmas dinner party and after that was over, he went to bed in another room. He was awakened by Yager, who allegedly began to trash his bedroom while screaming obscenities at him.

The boyfriend told police he left the bedroom and went to sleep on the couch, where he was awakened by Yager again who was now reportedly ransacking the rest of his house.

The boyfriend told Yager that he was going to call 911 if she did not stop. Then Yager allegedly yanked the phone line out of the wall and threw the phone across the room. He could not call police because he did not know where his cellphone was.

Yager’s boyfriend told police that he was fed up and pushed Yager outside, where she fell into the snow. The boyfriend said Yager then picked up an ax that was next to a wood pile in the front yard and threw it at him through the glass French door. Then she reportedly picked up a second ax and allegedly threw that at him as well.

“(The boyfriend) briefly told me that Yager was responsible and that she had freaked out on him and threw the axes at him through the French doors, nearly striking him,” the deputy wrote in his report. "(The boyfriend) said he was in fear for his life and believed that Yager was trying to kill him.”

Yager’s boyfriend was eventually able to flag down a passerby and have him call police. Yager, who was no longer at the residence when police arrived, was later found at a nearby residence and was arrested and booked into Kootenai County jail.