Scuffle at school with security guard leads to grandmother’s arrest.

A Little Rock grandmother was arrested on allegations she put herself and an elementary school security guard through a Plexiglas window Wednesday afternoon.

The scuffle started about 4:30 p.m. in the halls of Terry Elementary School when Belinda Mitchell, 56, of 2200 Andover Court went into an after-school care program and became “belligerent” with a teacher, police reports said.

Little Rock Police Department spokesman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said Mitchell was upset because she said another 4-year-old threw sawdust in the face of her 4-year-old grandchild earlier that afternoon.

According to Davis, staff members at the 10800 Mara Lynn Road school didn’t know about the sawdust, and when a security guard intervened between the teacher and Mitchell, the incident escalated.

The guard told the grandmother she had to leave, and while trying to escort Mitchell out, the two started fighting, police said. Mitchell struck the guard several times, reports said, and bit her in the left arm.

The guard pushed back, reports said, and the two fell through a window at the school’s administrative office, knocking it through its frame.

According to police, officers “recovered” a fingernail from the security guard’s hair and stored it in evidence.

The fight was caught on the school’s surveillance cameras and is also a part of the investigation.

Mitchell was arrested at the school and charged with second-degree battery, a class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison, and booked in the Pulaski County jail later Wednesday afternoon.

On Thursday, court officials said she was released from jail on a $10,000 bond and is set to make her initial appearance in Little Rock District Court on Oct. 4.