Deputy Noel Smith, a 46-year-old sheriff’s deputy of Polk County Alabama, has resigned after being on the force for more than 20 years.
Smith was arrested and charged with public intoxication, trespassing and battery after he barged into a neighbor’s home, convinced that it was his own, pissed himself and then began getting ready for bed.
Carol Carr was home with her teenage daughters on August 1 when the girls began screaming, saying that Smith walked into their bedroom and then walked out.
Deputy Smith allegedly walked into the back door, mistaking it for his own home.
After hearing her girls screaming, Carr came running and found the intruder inside her son’s bedroom. She said he appeared to be getting ready for bed.
“I kept telling him, ‘Don’t take your clothes off, don’t take your clothes off,’ and he was starting to take his pants off,” Carr said. “I said, ‘Don’t do that,’ and he said, ‘This is my house,’ and he starts going through the laundry, trying to find something to change into.”
Carr says he put on one of her son’s shirts. That’s when she tried physically confronting him.
“I tried to get him out of the house and he said, ‘This is my house.’ I said, ‘Sir, my house,’” says Carr.
She says she tried pulling him out of the room and then he shoved her up against a wall. She called 911.
When Cedartown police officers arrived, they found the intruder still inside the back bedroom.
“So they pointed tasers to him, not knowing what they were going to encounter, and instructed him to show his hands and turn around, and he complied,” explains Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome.
When the intruder turned around the arresting officers recognized him as being Deputy Smith.
According to the police report, Smith was intoxicated and had pissed himself while insisting on the home being his own but his residence was actually a block away.
“Yes, he actually told our officers, as they were escorting him out, not to let those people go into his bedroom while he was gone,” says Chief Newsome.
Smith’s boss, Sheriff Johnny Moats, called the ordeal “very bizarre.”
“I was very upset when I heard what happened,” said Moats. “Just a bad mistake that he made and now he’s gonna have to live with it.”
When it comes to prosecution, Moats and Newsome said Smith will get no special treatment and the case will be handled as it would with any other civilian.
“I don’t pull favors. The good ‘ol boy system is not in effect in my office,” says Moats.
As for Carol Carr, she says she and her daughters are still shaken up by the intrusion.