A Johnson Street woman was arrested Friday after threatening a state trooper following a chaotic incident at a Statesboro fast food restaurant.

Georgia State Patrol Post 45 Trooper 1st Class Aaron DiGiacomo responded to Arby’s on Fair Road Friday after a call about an apparently intoxicated woman in the drive-through lane.

Amanda Rose Middleton, 52, was reportedly arguing with a man in the passenger seat, her husband, as she entered the drive-through lane, he said.

After ordering food, Middleton, who later registered a .172 on an alcohol sensor, drove past the pickup window, opened her car door and fell out, he said.

An employee went outside to help but, encountering opposition and argument from Middleton, decided to call for law enforcement.

When DiGiacomo arrived at the scene, Middleton had parked “diagonally across a handicapped space” but had no handicap tag, he said.

After smelling alcohol and seeing the driver was impaired, the trooper searched the vehicle and found a “cellophane with crack” and crack cocaine residue on a knife, which he said Middleton admitted was hers.

She was arrested, and once in the patrol car, Middleton began berating DiGiacomo and making racist accusations, he said.

When they arrived at the Bulloch County Jail, the woman walked away when told to have a seat, and even in handcuffs, she fought against officers, he said.

She threatened that DiGiacomo was “gonna pay and threatened to kill me and my mama,” he told the Statesboro Herald.

Middleton was charged with terroristic threats and acts, illegal parking in a handicapped space, cocaine possession, DUI/less safe and no license on person.

She is being held in the Bulloch County Jail on the felony charges, according to jail records.

Herald reporter Holli Deal Saxon may be reached at 912-489-9414.