 A woman who caused the disturbance at a local shopping center could potentially face twenty years behind bars. Forty-one-year-old Sandy D. Ford of Betsy Lane has now been indicted for second-degree robbery and second-degree persistent felony offender. Ford is accused of attempting to leave J.C. Penny in Coal Run Village with $114 worth of merchandise. While attempting to leave the store, an employee confronted her and she allegedly tried to fight that employee and another one. She allegedly grabbed the first employee inappropriately and threatened to bite both employees after telling them she had hepatitis C. It's my understanding that she injured at least one of the people that was involved, maybe two, slight injuries, but still they were injured. If Ford would have complied with officers instead of physically assaulting them, her jail time would be a lot less. Now she faces up to twenty years in prison. Shoplifting is ordinarily a misdemeanor, but if you injure someone during the course of that theft, that turns that into a very serious charge of second-degree robbery. Second-degree robbery carries up to ten years in prison. Sandy Ford also has been previously convicted of a felony here in Pipe County. So in addition to looking at up to ten years in prison for the robbery, she's now a persistent felony offender, which means she's actually looking at twenty years in prison as a possibility. So by her actions here has taken a relatively simple case and turned it into a case that has very serious consequences. Sandy Ford is currently lodged in the Pipe County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.