Nothing Like Getting Arrested At A Christmas Parade

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A Simsboro woman who caused a disturbance along the Grambling Christmas parade route has been charged with a slew of alleged crimes including cruelty to juveniles and multiple counts of resisting police with force or violence. The incident that led to the Friday night arrest of 24-year-old Jessie Justine Harris began when Grambling Police Chief Tommy Clark, Jr., who was working the parade, heard a baby crying and two females yelling at each other.

Clark said as he approached the women, he realized the infant was in a backpack-type carrier being worn on the chest of an extremely intoxicated woman. The infant had no jacket, no sleeves, no shoes and was fully exposed to the approximately 48-degree weather, Clark said. When Clark approached the woman, asking how much she’d had to drink,

she reportedly screamed at him, pushed him, and swung at him with a closed fist. At that point, he told the other woman to take the baby and move back. Harris was taken to the ground, where she was forcefully handcuffed. Officers discovered a fully loaded 9mm handgun and two full magazines of ammunition in Harris’ purse.