A woman accused of agitating bees to get them to attack sheriff’s deputies during a 2022 eviction in Massachusetts was arrested in Tennessee this week for missing her court date.

Rorie Woods, who is representing herself, is accused of the attack in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office said. Ms. Woods, a Hadley resident at the time, wasn’t living in the house during the eviction.

The Springfield District Court in Massachusetts put out a warrant for her arrest for failure to appear at her trial, which was set to start Tuesday following several delays. Law enforcement arrested Ms. Woods at a hotel in Tennessee Thursday.

The extradition process to get her back to Massachusetts is ongoing, the sheriff’s office said.

Ms. Woods is facing four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and one count of disorderly conduct for the Oct. 12, 2022, incident, the sheriff’s office said.

The defendant is accused of arriving at the home in Longmeadow, where others were also protesting the eviction, and smashing open a manufactured beehive tower.

Escaped bees stung a responding Hampden County deputy before Ms. Woods purportedly flipped the tower off her vehicle, making the bees angry and leading them to swarm, the sheriff’s office said in a release.

Ms. Woods then approached the home with another hive before deputies arrested her, the sheriff’s office said. Several sheriff’s office employees were stung in the incident, and one employee, allergic to bees, was hospitalized.

A judge arraigned and released Ms. Woods without bail following the incident, the sheriff’s office said.

“This is not about a few sheriffs getting a few honeybee stings. It’s about predatory lending, which is thriving in Massachusetts and beyond,” Ms. Woods told New York magazine in 2022.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.