Ga. woman found asleep on blow-up mattress floating in pool arrested on burglary charges

MORGAN COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia woman was arrested after she was found sleeping on a blow-up mattress floating in a pool, according to the Morgan County Citizen.

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The Citizen reports that Amanda Lynn Jordan, 40, was arrested and charged with burglary at a home in Mansfield on Monday.

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Deputies said they were responding to reports of a burglary when they noticed an inflatable mattress floating in the pool. They then saw “a forehead and blond hair showing above the edge of the mattress,” the Citizen reported.

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Deputies woke up Jordan, who told them she lived at the home but was not involved in a burglary. She then asked deputies to push the air mattress to the side of the pool towards the pool ladder. Deputies used a pool cleaning brush to push the mattress to the edge, but it tipped over and Jordan fell in the water.

Jordan was taken to jail.

Later that morning, a person who was watching the home reported that security video showed Jordan trying to get into the home with a hammer and a knife.

The property owners told deputies that Jordan had once lived at the home, but not for months and that they wanted to press charges.

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