Athens-Clarke police arrested an Athens woman Thursday night after she allegedly attacked a man with a jar of olives.

The woman smashed the man in the head with the glass jar because he wouldn't give her money so she could buy crack, according to police.

Police charged Tammie Elaine Johnson, 49, with aggravated assault.

Officers responded to Riverview Apartments on College Avenue about 11 p.m. Thursday on a report of a fight. When they got there, they said they found a 44-year-old man bleeding from a cut near his eye.

The man told officers that he and Johnson, who also lives at Riverview, were at a neighbor's apartment when the argument broke out.


Officers went to Johnson's apartment where she explained that while at the neighbor's home she and the victim argued because he called her names, police said. After the neighbor asked them to leave, she and the victim went to the parking lot so they could "handle the problem."

On the way, she stopped at her apartment and grabbed the olive jar to use as a weapon because "she could not take (the victim)."

The arresting officer decided that Johnson should be arrested on a felony.

"I felt that her intent was to use the jar as an offensive weapon, so she was charged with aggravated assault," the officer wrote in the arrest report.
