Yup, she meets all requirements - crazy, semi-naked, and DRUNK!!!
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(Almost) 'Lady Godiva' arrested
By GREG TUTTLE
Of The Gazette Staff
A Billings woman got the attention of city police on Thursday with a demonstration of "bareback" riding.
Dawnalee Ellis, 34, was arrested in a yard at 314 Terry Ave. after officers received complaints at about 12:50 p.m. of a partially clothed woman on horseback near Central Avenue and Sixth Street West.
Officer DeWayne Ness said he found the horse and rider a few blocks away on Fourth Street West near Terry Park. The woman was wearing a tight fitting, one-piece skirt that had hiked up to her waist "so she was exposing herself to anyone who wanted to look," Ness said.
As she was riding, Ellis was drinking from a 12-ounce can of malt liquor, Ness said. The officer pulled his patrol car alongside the woman and asked that she stop the horse and get down so they could talk. Ellis ignored the officer and turned the horse into an alley between Terry and Miles avenues, Ness said.
Ness pulled into the alley behind the rider, and another officer drove into the alley from the opposite end. As the patrol cars slowly converged on the overexposed rider, she turned the horse through an open gate into a back yard, Ness said. The woman rode around the side of the house and was trying to ride through a gate in the front yard when her steed balked.
Ness said Ellis got off the horse and was trying to lead it through the gate when he and the other officer caught up with her.
"It appears she was intoxicated," Ness said.
Ness said the horse was calm during the incident, but he described Ellis as "not too cooperative." The woman was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was booked into the county jail. She posted $100 bond and was released from jail Thursday.
Ness said the woman apparently keeps the horse in a lot on Jackson Street.
Reports of a nude woman on horseback near King Avenue late last week led officers to investigate, but the horse and rider could not be found, Ness said.
Ness was arranging to have a horse trailer brought to the residence on Terry Avenue to haul the horse home, he said, but Ellis' boyfriend showed up and offered to ride it the mile or two back to the corral on Jackson Street.
Ness said there is no law against riding horses in the city, but he suggested it's probably not a good idea on busy streets.
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