A woman charged with obstructing a Police officer claimed she swore at him because "he pushed his private parts on me".

Khahlah Furbert, 28, admitted to committing the offence on Court Street after Police tried to arrest her over an outstanding traffic matter.

Crown counsel Nicole Smith told Magistrates' Court that on the evening of November 6, Police saw Furbert's car double parked outside Court Street Liquors.

When she returned, the officers spoke to her about her parking, and inquiries made of the Transport Control Department showed she had a warrant outstanding against her.

When this news was broken to her, the defendant replied: "No way. I'm going to call my momma," said Ms Smith.

She tried to get into the driver's seat, causing the officer to grab her by the arm. She swore repeatedly at him, at one point saying "get your f*****g hands off me".

Ms Smith added: "She tried to yank her hands away from the officer's grasp as he tried to handcuff her and she said 'don't f*****g touch me.'"

Furbert, of Schools Drive, Devonshire, was eventually taken to Hamilton Police Station. She asked Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner for an opportunity to give her side of events, explaining that her car was double parked and she wanted to call her mom.

"I was halfway in the car. All I wanted to do was park my car," she said. "I let them arrest me. He was putting his private parts on me. I asked him to get his private parts off me and back off, and that's the truth."

Under questioning from Mr. Warner about what he described as "a serious allegation," she admitted that she had sworn at the officer but went on to claim "he was pushing his private parts on me" when her hands were cuffed behind her back. In answer to further questions, she said she did not believe the officer had done this deliberately.

Mr. Warner asked Furbert — who gave her occupation as an office administrator at A&P Marine — why he should not record a criminal conviction against her.

"Due to the fact that this was an unfortunate incident," replied the defendant, going on to say that she apologised, and it would never happen again.

Mr. Warner said that in light of her remorse and the fact that she had no previous convictions, he would hand her a conditional discharge, which does not amount to a criminal conviction.

He ordered: "It's simply one condition. You seem very very vocal and eloquent. Therefore I assume you can write well. The condition is that you write to the Commissioner of Police within 30 days apologising to him for the inconvenience that you caused to his officer in the execution of his duty."

Furbert responded: "That seems very fair."