November 19, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A woman is charged with using a car door to assault her mother.
32 year old Tamara Michelle Dodson of Obie Adcock Road, Smithville is under a $2,500 bond for domestic assault. She will make a court appearance on December 6
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Friday, November 16 Dodson knocked her mother down to the ground with a car door causing a scrape to the left knee. The mother was trying to retrieve her purse and followed Dodson to her car after an argument between them over someone stealing Dodson’s phone. It was later discovered that Dodson’s phone was still inside the home where she had left it. After the altercation Dodson threw her mother’s purse out the car window and left the scene.