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 LORAIN, Ohio -- A North Ridgeville teen is facing charges after police say she was drunk at her high school prom and assaulted an officer. 
 
 
 
 Lorain Police arrested Jessica Halter, 18, of North Ridgeville at Deluca's in the Park in Lorain Saturday. Halter was attending her senior prom, but shortly after she arrived the school principal started getting complaints from fellow prom goers about her behavior according to police reports. 
 
 
 
 Police reports indicate the school principal and an officer tried to talk to Halter, but when they asked if she had been drinking she became beligerent. The principal had planned to call Halter's parents to pick her up, but her agitation escalated toward the police and school officials. 
 
 
 
 "She grabbed a chair and was banging her head on the chair causing her to get a bloody and broken nose, the officers took her into custody and she began to beat her head on the chair kick the officers everything they did she resisted," Lorain Police Lieutenant Jim McCann said. 
 
 
 
 According to the police report, Halter had a strong smell of alcohol, slurred speech and was unsteady on her feet. Police say she tried to swing the chair at school chaperones and police. 
 
 
 
 Two officers on the scene put Halter into cuffs, and as they tried to remove her from the hall her body went limp forcing the officers to carry her. Once she was at the cruiser, McCann said her behavior got worse. 
 
 
 
 "Once she got in the cruiser she began to clear her throat and started gathering blood and saliva in her mouth and spitting at the officer and refused to let the door close in the cruiser. She was spitting cussing kicking the whole way," McCann said. 
 
 
 
 Halter bonded out of the Lorain County Jail. She is facing charges for underage consumption, disorderly conduct, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest. 
 
 
 
 North Ridgeville High School Principal Patricia Bahr said the school has a strict policy against alcohol. She said any student caught with alcohol or under the influence at a school event faces a 10 day mandatory suspension. 
 
 
 
 No one answered the door at Halter's home Monday. Bahr said Halter is a good student and this is the first incident involving her. 
 
 
 
 Halter is expected to appear in Lorain Municipal Court on May 26th, which is the same day her senior classmates will receive their diplomas. ||||| Student Busted For Prom Meltdown 
 
 Cops: Intoxicated Ohio teen assaulted, spit blood at cops 
 
 MAY 17--Meet Jessica Halter. The Ohio student, 18, was arrested Saturday night at her high school prom after she drunkenly assaulted a policeman, tried to kick a paramedic, and spewed a "bloody ball of spit" at one cop. According to a Lorain Police Department report, an officer working the North Ridgeville High School prom was approached by school administrators who had received several complaints about the "highly intoxicated" Halter. When told of these complaints, Halter replied, "This is my fucking prom, this is bullshit." Halter, her speech slurred, denied drinking alcohol and cursed out the school's principal and assistant principal. "You are fucking bitches, this is my prom, I'm not drunk," said Halter. After refusing to take a Breathalyzer test, Halter attempted to swing a chair at cops, and then began "smacking her forehead into the chair handle causing her nose to bleed." While being handcuffed, Halter "began kicking, screaming, spitting and thrashing about." As she was walked out of DeLuca's catering hall, Halter--screaming obscenities--"let her legs go limp," so officers had to carry the teen to a patrol car. That is when Halter "cleared her throat and spit a bloody ball of spit" at Officer Kyle Gelenius, whose name tag was ripped from his uniform by Halter during the confrontation. Seated in the back of the cruiser, Halter "continued to spit blood on the windows, the divider, and the roof," and kicked the vehicle's window. For her prom night meltdown, Halter was booked into the Lorain County jail (where she posed for the mug shot below) and charged with assaulting a cop, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and underage drinking. (7 pages) 
 
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– An Ohio teen expelled from her prom for being drunk and belligerent was spitting mad—spitting blood, that is, from a self-inflicted nosebleed. Jessica Halter, 18, is facing a litany of charges after refusing to take a Breathalyzer test and screaming at school administrators, "You are fucking bitches this is my prom, I'm not drunk," according to the police report obtained by the Smoking Gun. When cops attempted to walk her out of the function hall, Halter went limp. Before she could be bundled into a police car, she "cleared her throat and spit a bloody ball of spit" at a responding officer. "She was spitting cussing kicking the whole way," another officer told Fox 8 News of Cleveland.