Megan Butler arrives at her preliminary hearing on assault charges Monday afternoon. She waived the hearing and remains incarcerated. PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette

South Williamsport resident Megan Butler wanted her neighbors arrested, but it was she who was taken away in handcuffs last week following a confrontation with officers that occurred at her home, according to an affidavit.

Butler, 36, of 440 Hastings St., apartment 2, has been charged with assault on a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault and resisting arrest as a result of the incident that occurred just before 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Butler called police because “the downstairs tenants were harassing her, and she was fearing for her life,” the affidavit stated.

When an officer questioned a downstairs neighbor about the issue, he was shown a video taken earlier in the day of Butler “leaning out of her open window yelling at people who were moving items out of the downstairs apartment,” the court document stated.

Police told Butler to stop yelling out of her windows while others were moving items out the unit below, court records stated.

However, this just seemed to irritate her more as her mood swung back and forth, police said. “She began raising her voice at me, telling me that they (those downstairs) were being too loud,” an officer wrote in the affidavit.

“At one point, she stood and came in close proximity to me” while arguing, the officer said.

She was adamant, telling the officers again that she wanted her neighbors arrested. “Butler continued yelling and acting aggressively” as she walked towards the officers, the affidavit stated.

While one officer was making his way to the apartment door to exit, “Butler grabbed the metal exterior door and forcibly slammed it into the officer’s left side, striking his elbow and hip,” police said.

When officers tried to handcuff her, “Butler continued to struggle and resist,” grabbing things on one of the officer’s uniform, including his taser, police said. Because she refused to walk on her own, Butler was “carried down an exterior stairwell,” the affidavit stated.

Butler was arraigned before District Judge William Solomon, and remains jailed in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.