Woman Assaults Man At Bus Stop Then Moons Cops

NORCROSS, GA – A woman was convicted of assaulting a man at a Gwinnett bus stop last week, holding a knife on him and demanding the cigar he was smoking, according to the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office.

Christina Holsenbeck was convicted after a two-day trial of aggravated assault. Sentencing was set for July 31, 2018 to allow witnesses to be present and heard regarding sentencing.

On April 12, 2017 at approximately 8:30 a.m. Duane Jenkins was waiting on the Gwinnett County Transit Bus at Best Friend Rd. and Brook Hollow Parkway to pick him up on his way to work when Holsenbeck approached him and asked him for a cigarette. After Jenkins told Holsenbeck that he didn’t have any cigarettes, she then asked for a puff on the cigar that Jenkins was smoking at the time. Believing Holsenbeck was a prostitute, he refused while saying “I don’t know where your mouth has been!”

Holsenbeck then produced a black folding knife from her purse and pointed it at Jenkins while saying, “I’ll just take your shit!” Jenkins believed Holsenbeck was under the influence of drugs based on the “crazy look in her eye” and therefore feared he was about to be stabbed so he threatened to shoot Holsenbeck if she didn’t put her knife away, although he didn’t actually have a gun. Holsenbeck then ran away.

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Jenkins called 911 and reported the incident. The Gwinnett County Police Department responded to the area and located Holsenbeck not far from the scene of the bus stop. She acted belligerently with GCPD officers while they tried to get her account of what had happened. Holsenbeck explained that she “self medicated” with an unspecified drug. At trial she admitted that she smokes crack cocaine although she claimed to have not been high during the morning in question, only that she was in the area to procure heroin for one of her friends. A black folding knife was found in Holsenbeck’s purse which was identified by Jenkins as the knife she used to assault him.

Holsenbeck testified at trial in her own defense and claimed that Jenkins along with a plainclothes officer with the Gwinnett County Police Department had solicited her earlier that morning and that because she refused their offer, Jenkins had threatened her with violence.

While being transported to the Gwinnett County Jail after being placed under arrest, Holsenbeck “mooned” one of the officers in a vehicle that was trailing her transport vehicle. Holsenbeck admitted during trial that she did “moon” the trailing officer’s vehicle but that she did so because she was showing the particular officer that she was “mooning” what he would never be able to see again from her.

Photo courtesy Gwinnett County Police Department