CENTRALIA, IL — A 43-year-old Centralia woman was arrested early Thursday morning after allegedly assaulting her neighbor.

According to Centralia police, Jera Alcon was arrested on charges stemming from Thursday morning’s alleged incident and another alleged incident from March.

Officers responded around 3:47 a.m. Thursday to the 1300 block of South Maple on a disturbance call. Upon their arrival, Alcon’s neighbor told officers he was sleeping and Alcorn’s dogs began barking.

He went to ask her to put the dogs up when she called him a homophobic slur. She then allegedly jumped the fence, called him a racial slur and struck him in the face.

Ac officers began to arrest Alcorn for battery and a hate crime, she reportedly again called the neighbor a homophobic slur, which was caught on police body camera.

Alcorn was already a person of interest from an incident in March involving her daughter’s boyfriend. In that incident, officers took Alcorn into custody and she reportedly began having a seizure in the back of the squad car.

She was then taken to SSM St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Centralia, where reports say she eventually struck a police officer and spit on him twice.

On Friday, Alcorn was formally charged in Marion County Court with Class 2 felony aggravated battery of a peace officer for the alleged incident in March, and misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct for Thursday’s alleged incident.