NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio (WOIO) – A 46-year-old North Royalton woman charged with assault after an argument at a school bus stop is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Parma Municipal Court.

Sara Jones claimed she was the victim during the Nov. 1 encounter at the bus stop located at State Route 82 and Woodcroft Trace.

Jones told North Royalton police that a man who was waiting in his truck for his son to get off the school bus physically assaulted her.

“He said, ‘Don’t touch my truck,’ and then hit me with the door. He said, ‘I’m going to stab you in the neck,'” Jones said.

But the unidentified man in the truck, along with several witnesses, told police a very different story.

“He kept trying to hit me and hit my phone,” the man said. “I didn’t know what she was trying to do.”

Jones said he couldn’t see when the bus arrived because of the other parent’s truck.

“He slapped me like that, he slapped me like that,” Jones told police.

“She came to me about three times, and the last time I said, ‘I’m over it.’ I’m calling the police,’” the other parent said.

Jones went to North Royalton police headquarters the next day to sign his ticket and get his fingerprints taken.

While at the station, a video showed Jones taunting and berating the officers as she was the only person charged.

The unidentified man was not charged because police said witnesses supported his story that he was defending himself.

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