Wal-Mart line scuffle woman to plead out

Heath Ellis, the woman accused of starting a ruckus at her local WalMart after cutting in line, then resisting arrest, will plead out her case rather than face possible jail time. The school teacher is accused of cutting in line in front of other customers, shoving other customers' merchandise aside on the conveyor belt, and becoming belligerent when confronted about her behavior. Ellis maintains she was just joining her cousin in line when the cashier became rude with her and refused to return her change. Store managers were called, words were exchanged and the police became involved. Police say Ellis then became even more irate and combative, kicking one officer in the face and another in the shins when she was being arrested and escorted to a police cruiser. Ellis says the officers called her racial epithets and asked her "why don't you go back to the ghetto."

She faced up to 15 years in prison on felony counts including assaulting officers, resisting arrest, and disturbing the peace. Under the terms of her plea agreement she will plead guilty to disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. She will serve a year of unsupervised probation, attend an anger management course and serve four days in jail before the end of the year. If she does not violate her probation, the her record will be sealed.

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