A Valparaiso resident was booked into the Porter County Jail on Friday on charges stemming from an incident last month in which a Porter County Sheriff’s Police officer sustained a broken leg, the PCSP said.

According to police, Gayle Lynn Delisio-Laney, 50, of 412 Sherman Drive, was arrested at 1:50 p.m. by the PCSP on charges of resisting law enforcement, disorderly conduct, and obstructing traffic.

In his probable cause affidavit, Officer Roger Bowles stated that, in the course of placing another person in custody, Delisio-Laney disregarded his repeated instructions to stop advancing on him, causing him “to draw his firearm to stop her advancement.”

Bowles also stated that Delisio-Laney “was verbally interfering” with his arrest of the other person “after being advised several times to stop.”

Finally, Bowles stated that Delisio-Laney had parked her vehicle in the roadway in such a way as to prevent the movement of a tow truck at the scene.

The incident began, police said, at 12:06 p.m. on Aug. 28, when Bowles observed a 1991 Ford Explorer registered to Elliot Tailford, 25, of Demotte, parked in the roadway at the intersection of C.R. 500N and McCool Road. After asking dispatch to contact Tailford--and being told that no phone numbers were available to him--Bowles ordered the Explorer towed, Bowles stated in his original report.

Then, at 12:44 p.m., Bowles was dispatched to the area of 325W 500N in Union Township in response to a report of a verbal disturbance. On his arrival, Bowles stated, he discovered a vehicle driven by Delisio-Laney, and in which Tailford was a passenger, stopped in the middle of the road blocking the tow truck hauling Tailford’s Explorer.

“ I confronted the man, identified as Ellliot Tailford, and attempted to explain to him why the vehicle was being towed and a possible resolution to the problem,” Bowles stated in his probable cause affidavit. “Tailford then became very agitated and ultimately began to act physically aggressively towards me when I attempted to move him out of the way from being injured by the tow truck.”

“While we were on the ground he continued to fight me and I attempted to pull out my Taser,” Bowles further stated. “Tailford was able to take the Taser from my hand, causing me to pull my handgun and advise him to drop the Taser. Tailford dropped the Taser and after being told several times to lay down on the ground, he complied. Tailford continued to disobey my orders and attempted to get off the ground. He then spit tobacco juice and tobacco on me. During the altercation, my leg was broken.”

At this point, Bowles stated in his original report, Delisio-Laney approached him and said that she would “just take (Tailford) home.” Bowles ordered her to stand back, at which point Delisio-Laney pulled a badge, advised that she is a corrections officer, and repeated her offer to take Tailford home, Bowles stated. Delisio-Laney continued to advance on Bowles despite his instructions not to do so, but did stop when he pointed his sidearm at her and informed her “that I would shoot her if she kept advancing toward me,” Bowles stated.

Tailford, for his part, has been charged with disarming a law enforcement officer, a Class C felony punishable by a term of two to eight years; battery to a law enforcement officer, also a Class C felony; resisting arrest, a Class C felony; battery by bodily waste, a Class D felony punishable by a term of six months to three years; and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.