'Lifted her shirt to show her gun': Woman threatened Taco Bell employees over wait time for her food and told them to 'meet her outside,' deputies say

A Maryland pistillate was precocious arrested aft threatening the unit astatine a Taco Bell over her nutrient order, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Old Line State.

Ashley Andrews, 30, stands accused of 1 number each of second-degree assault, displaying a handgun to a person, disturbing the bid oregon disorderly conduct, and reckless endangerment, according to a press release issued by the Queen Anne's County Office of the Sheriff.

The underlying incidental occurred connected June 18 astatine the fast-food taco joint's determination successful Kent Town Market successful Chester, a sparsely populated, census-designated spot connected Kent Island located immoderate 15 miles eastbound of Annapolis.

Deputies responded to a study of a pistillate "displaying a handgun during a verbal altercation" with employees, the sheriff's bureau said.

When instrumentality enforcement arrived, 2 radical were initially detained.

The archetypal was a pistillate who matched "the suspect's description," according to instrumentality enforcement; this turned retired to beryllium the defendant. The 2nd was identified lone arsenic "a idiosyncratic with Andrews' radical who was progressive successful an on-going verbal statement wrong of the restaurant."

After taking Andrews into custody, deputies took a "loaded firearm" disconnected her "person" and had unit members further place her arsenic the fishy successful question, the sheriff's bureau said.

"Staff advised Andrews had go upset implicit her hold clip for her nutrient and during a verbal statement told unit members to conscionable her extracurricular successful the parking lot," the property merchandise reads. "She past lifted her garment to amusement her weapon and utilized threatening connection towards them."

After reviewing surveillance footage, arsenic good arsenic footage from an employee's cellphone, investigators determined Andrews did, successful fact, enactment "as described," according to the sheriff's office.

Specifically, deputies said the footage showed the suspect "lifting her garment to show a handgun and placing her manus connected the grip of the weapon portion arguing with staff."

Aside from the alleged request for employees to conscionable her outside, however, it is unclear what different threats, if any, were made.

Andrews was rapidly assessed $5,000 bail, which she posted the adjacent day, according to tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime.

The lawsuit docket shows the suspect is being represented by a nationalist defender. On Monday, she invoked her speedy proceedings rights.

Trial is slated for July 23.

Law&Crime reached retired to the sheriff's bureau for further details connected this story, but the bureau had not responded by the clip of publication.