BUTLER TWP — A Butler County Community College student finds herself in trouble with the law over a case of alleged parking rage.

Campus police this week charged Crystal M. Williams, 33, of East Pittsburgh with three misdemeanors after they say she hurled expletives at an officer and berated a 911 dispatcher — all over her refusing to vacate a parking space.

BC3 Police Sgt. Michael Pearson came upon Williams about 10:40 a.m. Monday while on parking enforcement duty. She was seated in a car in one of the campus lots

Her car was in a space reserved for visitors, police said. Pearson advised her that she was not permitted there and had to move.

The officer said Williams in a “hostile agitated tone” asked him where she could park since all the other spaces were full. He gave some suggestions and she replied, “OK.”

Pearson resumed his duties in the same lot, writing up three tickets. But when he was wrapping up he noticed Williams hadn’t budged.

The officer told her that since she ignored him, he would have to write her a ticket. “I don’t care, write the (expletive) ticket,” she responded, according to court documents.

He did, and again advised her to move or face further action, possibly having her car towed.

Pearson noted that during the incident, the defendant called 911 three times, claiming to be the victim of harassment, documents said, and “police brutality.”

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