Corbin Police said Brenda T. Webb has admitted she is the woman who threw five flower boxes off the Engineer Street Bridge on Sept. 15.
Webb, 34, whom police have been searching for since she was identified as the woman captured on surveillance video, was arrested Tuesday afternoon as she was leaving The Trillium Center in Corbin.
"She said she went a little crazy," said Corbin Police Capt. Rob Jones who took Webb into custody. "She said she will pay for the damages."
Webb was charged with one count of second-degree criminal mischief, and lodged in the Whitley County Detention Center and is being held on a $5,000 cash bond.
Jones said the charge is a class "A" misdemeanor carrying a potential penalty of up to one year in jail.
Video dated Sept. 15, shows a woman and two children walking across the bridge and the splashes as the boxes land in the creek.
"They can be seen just picking the boxes up from the railing and tossing them into the creek," said Corbin Mayor McBurney.
City officials were able to retrieve a portion of the video that gave a better view of the woman. After distributing it to several media outlets, McBurney said officials received four calls identifying the woman as Webb.
Acting on that information, on Sept. 21 Corbin Police secured an arrest warrant for Webb and went to her home on Ott Road serve it. There was no one home at that time or when officers returned later that day.
Police came back early on the morning of Sept. 22 and found Webb’s van in the driveway.
Webb’s 12-year-old son told police they she wasn’t home but said she threw the flower boxes off the bridge because she was angry that her oldest son was in jail.
He added that Webb tried to choke the family’s Pit Bull dog the previous night, after which, she went to The Trillium Center.
Trillium Center officials would not confirm to police that Webb was staying at the facility. However, police kept watching for her, and when she walked out Tuesday afternoon, Jones was waiting.
Though all of the boxes that were thrown in the creek were retrieved, McBurney said two of them were broken and two others are likely damaged beyond repair.
McBurney said this is the third time the flower boxes on the bridge have been thrown into the creek. Estimates from area flower shops indicated it will cost about $850 to replace the five boxes.
