It's a face police can’t forget.
A woman posed for a memorable mug shot after she was arrested for threatening a neighbor and her dog with a knife in rural Oklahoma, police said.
Velna I. Vanbuskirk, 50, pouted and glared at the camera after she was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Aug. 21.
"She probably didn't have her teeth in and she was just making a face," Cherokee County Undersheriff Jason Chennuad told the Daily News of the mug shot. "That's not normally how she looks."
Vanbuskirk told the Daily News “it was just the face of being hurt and disgraced and being brought down.”
“I wasn’t feeling very good, so I made a face like a little bitty old timer and sucked my jaws in,” she said.
Vanbuskirk, who was freed on $2,500 bond, said she lost her teeth after a liver disease and back pain prevented her from caring for them.
Her mother said the local newspaper had run her daughter’s picture three times in the last week, and she threatened to sue.
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Vanbuskrik was arrested after she threatened the neighbor and dog because it had wandered onto her property, Chennaud said.
But Vanbuskirk said she was nervous because the dog had bitten her son before and she couldn’t protect herself because she’s in a wheelchair most of the time.
Vanbuskirk faces up to 10 years in prison if she's convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.
“I’d been done dirty,” Vanbuskirk said.
A week later, Vanbuskirk was arrested for abusing 911 — she called constantly for "no reason," including to get rides into town, Chennaud said.
Chennaud said Vanbuskirk has caused the department “a lot of problems” over the years, noting she's been arrested previously for assault with a deadly weapon and public intoxication.
Five people have taken protective orders out against Vanbuskirk since 2008, records show.
“I had a history of a mean streak,” Vanbuskirk said. “I haven’t been in a long time.”