Natalie was riding home on her bike from the grocery store when she noticed that a hidden police speed trap had pulled over a few cars. She wrote "Speed Trap" on a paper shopping bag and held it up on the sidewalk to warn approaching motorists.

A police car pulled up to her, an officer exited the car and pulled her backpack from her and searched its contents before arresting her for felony obstruction of justice, threatening her with 3-5 years in jail. She was locked up for 12 hours before she was let go with a citation for walking on the roadway, which she insists she was not doing.

This is an example of abuse of process. There is no law against of forewarning drivers of a police speed trap. She irked a cop, who pulled her from the sidewalk, threatened and intimidated her with a charge that he knew was without merit and incarcerated her for a duration of time (that probably allowed the traffic cop to achieve his quota of arrests).