After being released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a disorderly conduct charge, Amanda Evans, decided to take an unattended golf cart and attempt to smash through a barricade. Her strange court room appearance seemingly backs up her mother's claim that she needs her medication.


NBC Miami reports that Amanda Evans, 18, was charged with theft and was arrested on Tuesday.

She had been at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center picking up property, and upon leaving she took a golf cart and struck a barricade, the arrest affidavit said. She then hit an unoccupied, parked vehicle, the arrest affidavit said. Corrections officers were able to eventually detain her.



Evans' mother, Brenda Evans, said in a telephone interview that her daughter has schizophrenia and is bipolar, and has not taken her medication for about a month.

"She should have been Baker Acted," Brenda Evans said. "She needs her medication. If she has her medication, she will be OK."

Brenda Evans said her daughter had been previously arrested on Saturday for disorderly conduct.

Amanda Evans made her appearance through video conferencing Thursday before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer.

Evans is now charged with stealing a golf cart from a Miami jail was held on $5,000 bond on Thursday.