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Most recently, Paula DeFord, who has surveillance video of a woman cutting her screen with a knife, saying it’s Dykema. “It’s just been torment, torment”.
Officers arrived at Dykema’s Brooksville, Florida, home on Tuesday evening to arrest her on an outstanding warrant.
A Hernando County home is being called a “house of horrors”. When officers arrived, they saw her staring at them through a broken window. Police believe Nickcole Ellen Fay Dykema, 47, booby trapped her weapons, blankets and home in an effort to hurt investigating officers.
Law-enforcement officers had to taze Dykema in order to stop her and arrest her. She’s being held without bond on a number of charges, including assault on a law-enforcement officer.
“He [Sgt. Calderon] would have been well within his rights legally, morally and ethically to use deadly force on her”, said Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis. “Deputies also observed a long, silver, shiny sword waving around behind the blanket”.
‘She had a habit of banging on the inside of her house all the time on the walls, and screaming and hollering’.
According to WFLA, deputies, probation officers and parole officers went to arrest Dykema on Tuesday evening. Authorities say they fired several bean bag rounds at her after she tried to stab the deputy and refused to surrender.
Deputies had to deploy a taser to subdue Dykema, and fortunately, no one was injured during the arrest. When asked to turn so deputies could make sure she had no weapons behind her back, she “turned as if to retreat back into the residence”, the email said.
Deputies responded to a home on Eldorado Ave.
On Wednesday, deputies brought out box after box of knives, blades, and swords.
Finally, after nearly five hours, investigators say they got close enough to taze Dykema.
Some hung from the ceiling fan. In fact, they say the woman never left her mobile home, only to vandalize others. “I’m lucky to be alive that’s how I feel that’s exactly how I feel”. Dykema initially would not show her hands but subsequently did so.
It is alleged she next grabbed several knives and refused to put them down.
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Police then entered her home in Brooksville, north of Tampa and made a shocking discovery.
