Scooped Up: Nashville Woman Calls 911 When Husband Refuses Ice Cream Run

NASHVILLE, TN — A desire for ice cream can be intense. It's one of those cravings that can't be quashed with a substitute. And like all intense cravings, it can lead to bad decision making as a West Nashville woman demonstrated Sunday, according to Metro Police.

Officers responded to a home on Croley Drive after 37-year-old Rhonda Blythe-Dunham called 911, saying her husband had punched her. When officers arrived, they said husband and wife were both inside the home, acting calmly and with no indication there'd been a violent encounter.

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The officer spoke to the husband, who denied punching his wife and said the woman called 911 because she was upset he wouldn't go get her ice cream — he had been working all day, he told police, and was quite tired. Confronted with the information, Blythe-Dunham admitted she fabricated the punching story and officers told her she was under arrest for filing a false report.

Officers say she asked to be able to use the bathroom before her trip downtown and they allowed it, provided the door was cracked open. After a couple of minutes, however, the police say they heard a window open and "a large thud."

"Rhonda had opened the bathroom window and fled the scene," the officer wrote in the affidavit.

Though it took some time and effort, the officers were able to track down the ice-cream craving, bathroom-window escaping suspect.

Blythe-Dunham is charged with filing a false report and evading arrest. She was released on a $15,000 bond.

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