The Bloomfield Township woman who reportedly had a meltdown inside a Kroger’s supermarket because she didn’t like the decorating job on her son’s birthday cake was recently ordered to take anger management classes.
Tricia A. Kortes, 46, pleaded no-contest June 3 to a disorderly charge in 52-4 District Court over a dispute that occurred at her workplace in 2015.
She was ordered to pay a $500 fine and was given 60 days to complete an education intervention program. The court required her to go for six sessions.
Eight days later, June 11, she was slapped with a second disorderly charge for blowing up inside the Kroger store on Telegraph Road. Witnesses say she drop-kicked a custom-ordered “Batman v Superman” cake and then stomped all over it before leaving the store.
Kortes waived her right to an arraignment on the latest charge and is now scheduled for a pretrial hearing July 7 before 48th District Judge Kimberly Small. The disorderly conduct charge is a criminal misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.
Her attorney, Gerald Gleeson, declined to discuss the case other than to issue the following statement:
“It appears that this matter has been blown out of proportion and we look forward to resolving the matter at the appropriate time. And in the interim period, we are seeking counseling.”
On March 3, 2015, Troy officers were called to a workplace in Troy for a reported assault and battery. Several witnesses at the company told police they saw Kortes shove a fellow worker and hit her with a cell phone following a verbal argument between the two women.
The reporting officer observed a broken set of eyeglasses, along with swelling under the victim’s left eye. Initially, the city attorney’s office in Troy declined to issue an arrest warrant because of conflicting testimony between the two parties.
The case was reopened several months later, however, after another employee stepped forward and claimed he saw Kortes initiate contact with the other woman. Based on the employee’s statement, an arrest warrant for assault and battery was issued in January 2016. The charge was later reduced to disorderly conduct.
According to court records, Kortes also was convicted on a fourth-degree assault charge in King County, Wash., in 2003. She served three days in jail and performed 134 hours of community service.
