JERSEY SHORE — A disturbance on North Main Street late Saturday night landed Jessica E. Barger in the Lycoming County Prison, and Lycoming Regional police Sgt. Brian Fioretti in an emergency room with serious upper body injuries, according to court documents.

Officers were dispatched to an apartment at 225 N. Main St. about 10:30 p.m. to check on the welfare of a woman, later identified as Barger, who reportedly “was on methamphetamine and believed people were trying to kill her,” it was stated in an affidavit. When they entered the home, officers spotted in a bedroom suspected methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia on top of a desk, police said. The 33-year-old Barger was in the room and began yelling, telling the officers not to touch her as she headed into the living room, the court document stated.

She then suddenly ran out of the apartment with Fioretti and other officers chasing after her. Suddenly Fioretti, while trying to detain her, fell down a flight of steps, resulting in “serious bodily injuries to his head and hands,” it was stated in the affidavit. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital for medical treatment.

Once outside, Barger, of 30 Faith Lane, Trout Run, was totally out of control, swinging at police officers and emergency medical technicians who were trying to help her and get her under control. She is alleged to have kicked one of the officers in the shins and “yelled at the top of her lungs ‘Help, help. The police are trying to kill me. Help,'” the court document stated.

Due to her “volatile, violent and out-of-control belligerent behavior, it was determined that she needed to be given medicine to physically sedate her” so that she could not injure herself or others more. Hearing her “obnoxious screaming,” numerous residents on the street came out of their homes to witness the commotion, police said. The woman was taken from the scene, but there was no information on whether she was transported to a hospital or a police station.

Barger has since been arraigned before District Judge Denise Dieter on felony charges of aggravated assault and evading arrest as well as several misdemeanors, including resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. She remains jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail.

There was no information Wednesday afternoon on how Fioretti’s recovery was progressing.