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Authorities said an intoxicated woman who was being charged with indecent exposure sprayed officers with urine when they attempted to arrest her Sunday at Blount Memorial Hospital.

The incident began at 2:48 a.m. when Alcoa Lt. Paul Gilbert found Cindy Lynn Holder, 28, Boxwood Avenue, Alcoa, passed out and nude in front of someone's front door, an Alcoa police report said.

Gilbert reported that he responded to a call of a female crying and knocking on someone's front door at an apartment on Tupelo Way, Louisville. When Gilbert arrived, he said he found the woman passed out at a front door completely nude and extremely intoxicated. He said it took her a while to respond to him, she had slurred speech and had an odor of alcohol about her person.

According to the report, the woman was unaware of where she was and said she was dropped off by a friend. The tenant of the apartment said he did not know Holder but had seen her in the area before.

Holder was taken to the Blount County Jail, but Gilbert said she would not stand up when intake officers attempted to bring her in for booking. Officers then took her to Blount Memorial Hospital. They obtained warrants charging Holder with public intoxication and indecent exposure and asked hospital staff to alert authorities upon her release.

At 12:10 p.m. Sunday, three Maryville police officers responded to the report of a disturbance at the Blount Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, according to a Maryville police report. ER staff told Maryville officers that Alcoa officers brought a woman into the hospital, but she had later ran from the emergency room. Maryville officers discovered the warrants that Alcoa officers had filed on Holder.

"We began a search of the hospital and located her hiding behind an ATM machine," a Maryville officer reported. "She was wearing a T-shirt and was naked from the waist down. "

Officers reported that Holder was catheterized and did not want to come out from behind the ATM machine. When officers took her by each arm to escort her back to the emergency room, she became angry and said "she was going to sling (urine) on us," the report said.

"She then reached down and grabbed the catheter and began to sling it back and forth, spraying (two officers) with urine," an officer reported, adding that they arrested Holder at that time.

Holder was charged by Maryville police officers with two counts of reckless endangerment and was charged by Alcoa police officers with indecent exposure and public intoxication. She was being held in lieu of bonds totaling $10,775 pending a 9 a.m. June 4 hearing in Blount County General Sessions Court.