Jun 6, 2016

Archived: Woman Jailed After Allegedly Letting Dog Bite Authorities Thursday

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) – A woman from central Minnesota is in jail after authorities say she let a large dog out of her pickup truck and the animal bit a sheriff’s deputy.

The Stearns County sheriff’s office says 24-year-old Morgan Knutson from Brooten also kicked a Sauk Centre police officer in the head during her arrest Thursday.

A farm owner had reported a woman was in his yard "whipping doughnuts" in a pickup truck and acting strangely. The deputy found the woman screaming on top of the pickup. When he talked the woman into getting off the truck, authorities say she let a mastiff out of the pickup, and it bit the deputy in the left leg.

The Star Tribune reports the woman cheap swiss replica watches remained jailed Sunday. The dog was put in quarantine.

Knutson is facing felony charges of terroristic threats and assault in the fourth degree.

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