Woman arrested after hitting self with frying pan

Kelley J. Lemay first reported that her estranged husband had punched her in the face.

Then, as he was about to be taken away in handcuffs, she changed her story. Actually, she told police, she hit herself in the face with a frying pan to get him in trouble because he had thrown her cell phone out the door. Lemay, 29, of Ocklawaha, was arrested at 12:04 a.m. Wednesday and charged with filing a false report, according to the Ocala Police Department.

An officer first went to an apartment complex in the 1500 block of Northeast 39th Avenue and met Lemay's estranged husband, William Bowden. Bowden told the officer Lemay had slapped him and that he threw her cell phone outside the apartment. He lives there, he said, but she lives elsewhere.



When he went to retrieve the phone, she locked the door of his apartment and refused to let him in. In his report, the police officer noted that he didn't see any marks on Lemay or Bowden.

However, when another officer arrived on scene and talked with Lemay, he noticed that her right eye was swollen. The woman told the second officer that Bowden had punched her. An evidence officer was called to record the injury but Lemay refused to be photographed.

Officers handcuffed Bowden and were about to leave, when Lemay had a change of heart and told them she used a frying pan to smack herself in the face. Then Lemay was then taken to the Marion County Jail.