RUTLAND TOWN, Vt. — A 46-year-old Rutland woman has been charged with assaulting a trooper by spitting at him after police were called to a Rutland Town hotel late Sunday, the Vermont State Police said Wednesday.

Troopers from the state police barracks in Rutland went to the Hampton Inn on Farrell Road in Rutland Town at about 11:43 p.m. after a report of a disorderly woman who was refusing to leave the property, according to the agency.

Troopers identified the woman as Lauren E. Donovan, police said. While she was being detained, Donovan spat at a trooper through an open window of a state police cruiser, and after she was arrested she spat at a trooper a second time, according to the state police.

Donovan was taken to the Rutland barracks for processing and released with a citation ordering her to appear in court, police said. She faces charges of assault of a protected professional and unlawful trespass.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 28 in Vermont Superior Court, Rutland Criminal Division. The state police said court dates can change.

The charges are allegations, and Donovan is presumed innocent unless and until she is proven guilty in court.

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