Misty Cummings Road Rage Investigation; victim speaks. Misty Croslin in more trouble.

LAKE MARY, Fla. -- It was a little after 11 a.m. on Wednesday when Courtney Ballinger was driving eastbound on I-4 in Lake Mary. She is a saleswoman and travels a lot along central Florida roadways. But on Wednesday, her trip would be much different when Courtney tells Action News a blue car came out of nowhere and started harassing her.


They were circling me, cutting me off, slamming on their breaks, the driver and the passenger would take turns depending on what side of the car they were on hanging from waist up out of the vehicle pointing their fingers at me, making obscene gestures, saying they were going to kill me, um, beat me up, said Courtney.


Ballinger tells Action News it was one of the scariest moments of her life.


Ive never come across anyone who is even close to being as aggressive as these individuals were, said Courtney.

Ballinger says she was scared the whole time, but what made her call 911 was when she says it looked as though Misty Cummings had a weapon.

I tried to ignore it for the first ten minutes, but when I saw the passenger, who later I found out was Misty Cummings, bend down and pick something up underneath the street. Thats when I called 911because you know, she definitely made it seem like she had something, she wanted me to feel threatened, said Courtney.


Ballinger called 911. Less than six-minutes after she dialed the number, deputies from the Seminole County Sheriffs Office and Lake Mary Police Department were on the scene. Misty and a woman later identified as Donna Brock were taken out of the car at gunpoint, cuffed, and put into two different patrol cars. Both ladies were questioned about the incident and police searched the car. No weapon was found. Officers say they could not charge the two women because it was someones word against another with no witnesses. Both women were eventually allowed to leave the scene.


What was so intense about it was how relentless they werethey were non stop, I mean, you know it went on for about 10 minutes before I actually even called 911 because I was thinking okay, these are just some young girls. Theyre angry, whatever and Im just going to ignore them, but that didnt work. They were acting as though they wanted me to think that they had a weapon in the car, said Courtney.


Ballinger says she has no intentions of filing any additional charges against Misty or the driver of the car. She says shed prefer to forget this whole event happened.


Action News spoke with the Deputy from the Lake Mary Police Department who was on scene when the women were cuffed. Officer Zach Hudson says the women were cooperative with investigators during the questioning. He says when Misty was put on the ground and cuffed, she looked up at the officer and said, Im Misty Cummings, you might know me.




Officer Hudson says there was no bravado in Mistys voice, and she wasnt acting as though she thought she needed special attention. He says it sounded as though she just wanted the officers to know she was not a threat.


Mistys lawyer Robert Fields tells Action News he believes the 911 caller made up the entire story. He says during the 911 call, the woman told dispatchers the license plate number of the vehicle they were driving. Fields says if the caller was in front of the suspects car, she would never be able to read off the license plate to dispatchers. He believes the caller initiated the call to 911 to report a false claim to get back at Misty and the driver for an earlier altercation on the road. Law Enforcement has said the Ronald Cummings is not a suspect in the taking of Haleigh Cummings. They have also said they are satisfied that he does not know what happened to Haleigh Cummings.
Read what Kim Picazio know says about her client-
http://www.artharris.com/2009/11/20/exclusive-misty-croslin-family-fist-fight...

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[AriannaJful]

I have to agree this sounds completely bogus. I certainly hope it is this woman alone and not linked to anyone else. Though I have not agreed with Mr.Miller thus far how he has handled things I just cannot see him getting in on faking a set up of this nature. This is so far out of control the one lost in all of it is Haleigh. People feed on their desire to target Misty go on the news and then the news says she is causing the drama when in fact they are the ones doing it but nothing for Haleigh

[DoranOwns92]

lol Misty Cummings

[alaskakiska]

allowed her to get back on road??

[DarkAngelusV]

hahaha Misty CUMMINGS lol

[epyksOne]

Haha Putnam

[exaurius]

i have been followed while driving before, i had to run a red light to get them off my ass

[33L11]

misty cummings..... :)

[no1zgrl4eva]

No, she is a very VERY smart, manipulative little piece of work, and she doesn't give a rat's ass about her role in Haleigh's abduction. Wish I could spit in her face.

[DotiBump]

I think it was Steph Watts....at least he knew about Brock.

[DotiBump]

I guess that is what LE has been trying to say all along. She has no heart.

[no1zgrl4eva]

YOu took the words right out of my mouth, EXACTLY! All these TV interviews showed this weeping little girl, now the phone call from jail shows another side, the REAL Misty.