Florida woman jailed for making sex noises.

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The county sheriff is a strongly religious man who is being targeted by a local atheists group for taking basketball hoops from the county jail and giving them to churches.

One of these atheists is in jail without bond for making noises of a sexual nature inside her home as a boy and his father, her neighbors, played basketball outside.

It's not the first time for her. There is an interesting video at the Fox Link. One does not make Sheriff Grady Judd upset.

Woman still jailed on sex noises charge

BARTOW - Outspoken Atheist Ellen Beth Wachs is in the Polk County Jail on no bond. On Wednesday, her attorney said she is there because local law enforcement sees her as a thorn in their side.

"I don't think they like people speaking out and challenging their authority," said attorney John Ligouri.

Wachs is accused of making sexual noises that her neighbor's 10-year-old son heard. According to investigators, here's what happened: the boy was playing basketball one morning. Wachs asked him to stop because she was sick and the noise was bothering her. The boy did stop, but a few minutes later, he began shooting hoops with his dad.

Detectives say Wachs began making loud moaning noises of a sexual nature. When deputies arrived, they arrested her.

Here is some information about her first arrest in March. She is a retired Pennsylvania attorney, and she was charged with practicing law without a license.

It took 10-15 squad cars and multiple officers to carry out that arrest. Her home was in shambles.

Police raid home of Florida atheist activist

Wachs, who lives in a gated community just outside Lakeland city limits,
was arrested March 3 in what she termed a surprise raid on her home. She
was charged by State Attorney Jerry Hill's office with practicing law
without a license, a charge Wachs emphatically denies.

"They knocked on the door and asked me to step outside," said Wachs, who
said she did as requested. "They told me I was under arrest." When she
asked what was she being charged with, it was then she learned she was
being arrested for illegally posing as an attorney.

The ferocity of her arrest caught her off-guard, she said. She estimated
there were anywhere from 10-15 officers and a similar number of squad cars.

"Some (law enforcement officials) were in civilian clothes, some in
uniforms," she said. "The street was lined with patrol cars." Wachs
added the uniformed officers were bedecked in SWAT-style regalia instead
of standard uniforms.

Here is why the atheist group is taking Grady Judd to court.

Atheist group plans on taking Judd to court over hoops

TAMPA --

Upset that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd donated his jails' county-funded basketball hoops to churches last week, an organization of atheists has threatened to take him to court.

Attorney EllenBeth Wachs, legal affairs coordinator for Atheists of Florida, said county property needs to stay within the county.

"He decided to play Santa Claus with county resources, with taxpayer money - to make himself look good," said Wachs, who plans to file an emergency injunction in federal court early next week. "As an atheist, I don't give to churches. Sorry, that's just the way it is."

Judd said he doesn't plan to change anything simply because atheists disagree with him.

He said hoops at the churches will help decrease crime and increase the quality of neighborhoods. To uproot the hoops from churches, he said, would be discriminatory.

There is an intolerance in this Central Florida area. This is not about whether it is atheists suing a Christian sheriff....it is about taking public property paid for by taxpayers and giving it to churches.