A 32-year-old local woman remains at Bucks County Correctional after one of two preliminary hearings was held Wednesday for being arrested twice by Bristol Township Police in less than an hour, while she had an active failure to appear warrant from county authorities.
District Justice Kevin Wagner held over charges of aggravated assault and harassment filed against Tabitha Godwin by Bristol Township Police connected to an incident that first occurred on May 12 at Green Lane Wawa and then at an incident at Lower Bucks Hospital.
Wawa store management requested police assistance after finding Godwin unresponsive on the floor. Police arrived on scene within minutes and found the woman breathing, but she remained unresponsive.
Responding officers retrieved her state identification from her purse, which identified her as Tabitha Godwin. Upon further investigation, police discovered that Godwin had an arrest warrant from the Bucks County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear, according to court records.
During the search incident prior to Godwin’s arrest, police found what appeared to be a crack pipe and a container with a green lid containing suspected crack cocaine. Also found were blue bags stamped with HELLBOY and HOT SAUCE. The blue bags contained suspected heroin, according to the probable cause affidavit. Godwin was taken to Lower Bucks Hospital for what appeared to be an overdose and cleared medically so she could be processed on misdemeanor drug charges.
Some 30 minutes later Bristol Twp. Police were dispatched to a reported assault on a nurse at Lower Bucks Hospital.
Godwin, according to the nurse she allegedly assaulted, became upset and agitated with hospital personnel, and punched the nurse in the face, knocking her glasses off her face, leaving an observable bruise, according to the probable cause.
Godwin was arraigned on May 13 in both cases by Judge Terrence Hughes. He set unsecured bail of $25,000.00 for the misdemeanor drug charges and bail of 10 percent of $100,000 for the aggravated assault charge. The $100,000 bail was reduced at a bail reduction hearing to 10 percent of $10,000. Even with the reduction, Godwin could not post bail and she remained in Bucks County Jail.
A preliminary hearing for the drug-related offenses is now scheduled for late June. A formal arraignment in the case of aggravated assault at Lower Bucks Hospital is scheduled for June 27 at the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.
The failure to appear warrant for Godwin is connected to an April arrest where she was charged by Bristol Township Police with defiant trespass and misdemeanor drug offenses. She has a court date set for that case for June 12.
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