Wetumka Woman Charged with Assault and Battery on Police Officer

A Wetumka woman has been charged with two separate felony counts of assault and battery on police officer/detention officer, according to documents filed in the District Court of Seminole County on December 21. A felony information document filed in this case states that Athena Yvette Hale, 41, "on or about the 14thday of December, 2023, by willfully and unlawfully biting, kicking and hitting (separate victims for each of 2 counts), a Seminole County Detention Officer with the intent to injure (victims), knowing (victims) was a Seminole County Detention Office who was performing the duties of a detention officer." The probable cause affidavit filed in this case states that on December 14, at approximately 3:15 a.m. Seminole County Sheriff's Deputy Kendra Goodwin was dispatched to the Seminole County Jail to assist with a combative inmate that was brought into the jail. (Hughes County Court documents show that Hale was charged with a misdemeanor charge of domestic abuse – assault and battery in the District Court of Hughes County on December 20. Hughes County inmates are currently being housed in the Seminole County Jail).