CLEARFIELD TWP — Police suspect alcohol may have fueled a woman’s peculiar anti-fracking protest last week.

Penni L. Lechner, 37, of Summit Township is accused of getting out in traffic last week and climbing onto an oil fracking truck on Old Route 422 in Clearfield Township.

The driver told state police that while aboard the dump truck, the woman “began to berate him about fracking and the ground water,” according to court documents.

Police eventually found Lechner and a friend of hers fighting shortly before midnight Friday in the parking lot of the Clearfield Elementary School. She offered up an odd excuse for being there.

“(She) began to relate she was the neighborhood fire entertainer and she was hired to perform fire dances at the school,” documents said.

Troopers noted that the woman appeared to be intoxicated and they could smell alcohol on her breath.

Lechner that night had been riding in a vehicle driven by the same man the officers found her fighting with, according to police.

The two troopers ended up arresting her but not before she struggled with the officers, forcing them to take her to the ground.

Later, at the barracks, the suspect became “physically resistive,” a police affidavit said, and she tried to kick and bite the troopers who tried to restrain her.

Lechner was arraigned on misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, and summary charges of disorderly conduct, harassment and public drunkenness. She is free on $2,000 unsecured bail.

A preliminary hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora.