88-year-old woman stabs police officer who showed up to her home in address mix up

A police officer who responded to the wrong home, was stabbed and beaten by an elderly woman.

Officers were dispatched to 57 Wilson St. around 3:50 p.m., on a report of a disturbance in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

The dispatcher gave officers the wrong address. The call came from 57 Memorial Drive, one block north of Wilson Street. 
When officer responded to the wrong home, they were confronted by 88-year-old Phyllis Stankiewicz. When officers knocked on her door, Stankiewicz responded with a knife in her hand and began swinging it at the officers.

“There is no crime here. Get out of my house,” she shouted, while sticking the knife to the stomach of one officer. 

When the officer managed to grab the knife, Stankiewicz allegedly pushed him and slapped him hard in the face. 

The officers tried to arrest the 88-year-old woman in her home, but she resisted. The officers threw her to the ground and arrested her. 

Stankiewicz was charged with one count of assault and battery on a police officer.

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