A University of Georgia student was arrested early Friday after she assaulted a downtown bar employee with pepper spray, according to an Athens-Clarke County police report released Tuesday.
A police officer was on patrol shortly before 2 a.m. when he noticed a commotion outside the entrance of Jerzees Sports Bar on East Clayton Street, where a female was arguing with a Jerzees employee. Upon noticing the officer, the female began heading toward an SUV parked nearby.
That is when the report indicates that 18-year-old Saylor Marie Nolan got out of the SUV and walked toward the Jerzees employee and pointed a pink can from which she let loose a blast of pepper spray. The bar employee was hit with the spray, as were two other males who were next to him, according to the report.
The police officer stated in the report that he grabbed Nolan before she was able to get back into the SUV, then he placed her in handcuffs, at which time Nolan explained why she targeted the Jerzees employee with pepper spray:
“She said that that the gentleman had threatened to rape her friend, but I didn’t hear any such threats and it is highly unlikely that Saylor could hear much of the conversation as she was inside the vehicle,” the police officer wrote in the report.
The officer said in the report he next turned his attention to the three people who Nolan pepper-sprayed. The skin of the Jerzees’ employee was said to be “very red and irritated,” but it was not indicated in the report whether he needed or received any medical attention. One of the other males already washed the irritant off of him, and the third was mostly shielded from the pepper spray by the hat he was wearing, according to the report.
When searched, Nolan was found to be in possession of a fraudulent Pennsylvania driver’s license, according to the report.
Nolan was charged with battery, possession of a fake ID, and underage consumption of alcohol.
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