Woman Charged After Alleged Attacks With Hatchet While High on Mushrooms

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A woman accused of attacking several people in Hoquiam last week while high on mushrooms has been booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail on charges including first-degree assault and first-degree burglary, according to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office.

Suspect Alicia Marie Lamb, 29, of Hoquiam, was hospitalized following the incident but was booked into the jail after being released from Grays Harbor Community Hospital Saturday.

The 82-year-old victim in the assault was released from the same hospital Sunday and is staying with family, according to the sheriff’s office.

The incident was first reported at 5:40 a.m. Thursday when a woman called Grays Harbor County’s 911 communications center to report she had found missing McCleary girl Lindsey Baum. Baum disappeared at 10 years old from McCleary in 2009.

Dispatchers traced the call to the Dekay Road area in Hoquiam.

Deputies from the sheriff’s office and the Hoquiam Police Department responded as dispatchers got another call reporting a woman with a hatchet forced her way into a home and damaged furniture.

Police arrested Lamb in a second home after she allegedly hit the 82-year-old man in the head and body with the hatchet. His injuries were not life-threatening.

“It appeared that the man did an exceptional job at trying to fend off the female attacker as she pursued him inside his home,” according to the sheriff’s office. “The man was home alone at the time of the attack.”