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A woman high on gas station products was arrested March 18 after trashing her mother’s house in Sweetwater.

Sweetwater Police Officer Riley Turpeinen said he went to a house on North West Street on a call of Tasha McSpadden being in the house screaming and breaking things.

Turpeinen said when he arrived he could hear loud music playing in the house and could see several items laying in the yard that McSpadden had reportedly thrown out of the house.

Turpeinen said he knocked on the front door and McSpadden opened it. Turpeinen said he could see several broken items on the floor, including a plate, vacuum cleaner, broken decorative apples, kitchen utensils and a bent frying pan.

Turpeinen said McSpadden told him she was high on Delta 8 she had bought at a gas station. He asked her if she had permission to be in the house, because he knew she’d been charged with trespassing by being at the house in November.

McSpadden said she did have permission to be there and in fact lived at the house.

Turpeinen contacted Athens Police and asked them if they would contact the homeowner at her work place. They did and when Turpeinen talked to her, she said, no, her daughter didn’t have permission to be there.

McSpadden, Sweetwater, was charged with aggravated criminal trespassing.

michael.thomason@advocateanddemocrat.com