Crazed Woman Unbelievably Crashes Old Bus Into Louisiana School

If you have ever watched an episode of "Cops", the television show that follows police officers live in their line of duty, you might have thought to yourself, "This has got to be scripted. There's no way stuff like this really ever happens."

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Well, such a story just took place yesterday morning in St. Tammany Parish and the twists in the story just keep on coming.

We first read about this bizarre encounter in a story from the Louisiana Radio Network, and to be perfectly honest, I had to check another source, foxnews.com, to reassure myself that I wasn't getting the wool pulled over my eyes.

Turns out, this story was entirely true.

Apparently, yesterday morning around 6:00 am, a Florida woman, 37-year-old Natalie Jade Jarvis, walked into a gas station in Mandeville carrying a blow torch and demanded to learn the whereabouts of the Local Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) office.

Photo courtesy of Covington Police

Employees of the gas station immediately contacted the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office and told deputies the woman was driving an old, repurposed school bus, pictured above, which had a Virginia license plate on it.

Deputies located the bus and pursuit ensued through downtown Covington with the woman ultimately crashing the bus into a fence at St. Scholastica Academy in Covington.

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As deputies took Jarvis into custody, they were led to believe that she had been living in the bus, with a number of chickens, at a local state park, for approximately the past month.

Photo from St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office

Last month, a male also believed to have lived with Jarvis and the chickens on the bus, was arrested on domestic abuse charges at the state park.

Sgt. Suzanne Carboni of the St. Tammany Sheriff's Department told the Louisiana Radio Network that at the time of the male's arrest, a child was taken into state custody.

Concerning yesterday morning's events Carboni says that “She was very mad apparently concerning the incident from last month where the man was arrested.”

Carboni added that after yesterday morning's incidents, Jarvis is facing numerous charges. “She’s been charged with aggravated flight, terrorizing, weapons on a school property, aggravated obstruction of a highway of commerce, a hit and run, simple criminal damage, and reckless driving.”

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