Spraying Perfume leads to arrest

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Perfume spraying incident leads to arrest

Published: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:27 p.m.

Last Modified: Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:43 p.m.

HOUMA – The cologne-wafting woman local police believe caused at

least two men to feel ill and light-headed was arrested Thursday,

after being pulled over near the Hollywood Video parking lot on

Luther King Boulevard.

Patches Wegmann, 22, of 1449 Spanish Oaks Drive in Harvey, was

charged with simple battery and unlawful solicitation after she

sprayed perfume on a 26-year-old man's arm outside a store in a

Luther King Boulevard shopping center, said Maj. Malcolm

Wolfe, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman. She was with

three other men who were released and not charged.

The woman admitted to spraying cologne on a man Thursday and to

spraying cologne under the nose of an 18-year-old last month in front

of a Grand Caillou Road restaurant, Wolfe said.

But Wegmann also contends she did not intentionally hurt anyone.

" She claims she thought she was selling legitimate perfume and didn't

know it was harmful, " Wolfe said.

The June 9 victim told Houma Police officers an attractive woman

approached him, asked if he was interested in buying some cologne and

waived a sample under his nose. After the teen returned to his job,

he passed out and was taken to Leonard Chabert Medical Center, where

he underwent tests and observations. He was released later that day,

Houma Police said, and no long-term effects are expected.

His symptoms included dizziness, shortness of breath and numbness in

his extremities.

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Thursday's victim of the spraying, a 26-year-old man, reported that

the perfume fumes made him feel light-headed and the perfume

irritated his skin, Wolfe said. He was taken to Thibodaux Regional

Medical Center.

" The case we had was nowhere near severe as the City Police had, "

Wolfe said.

The woman was arrested by on-duty Louisiana State Trooper, who was

flagged down near Radio Shack after eating lunch at Sicily's.

Trooper Harding said the victim's girlfriend flagged him down

and told him about the perfume incident. She described the perfume

sellers' car as a white Nissan Altima, which Harding said he'd

previously seen when walking out of lunch.

" I think it was more I was in the right place at the right time, "

Harding said