Salina Post

SALINA — Drivers stopped for a train got a surprise early Tuesday afternoon when a woman got out of a stopped vehicle, tried to get into the other vehicles, and then disrobed and lay down in the roadway.

By the time Saline County Sheriff’s deputies got to the scene in the 1700 block of West State Street (where State Street intersects with Old 40) shortly after 12:30 p.m., the woman had taken off some of her clothes and was lying in the roadway, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Wednesday. Soldan said that prior to taking her clothes off, the woman had gotten into one of the vehicles and attempted to take some money from the console, but the driver snatched it back.

Soldan said that Chelsea Shanks, 30, of Salina, was transported to Salina Regional Health Center (SRHC). While there, she allegedly battered one of the security guards and attempted to stab a nurse with a syringe, he said.

After Shanks was treated at SRHC, she was booked into the Saline County Jail on suspicion of the following, Soldan said.

• Aggravated burglary
• Attempted theft
• Aggravated assault
• Battery