Cops: More than 3,000 swords, machetes found in Florida woman Nickole Dykema’s home

Mike Gallagher

Sep 17, 2015 - 09:40

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Cops: More than 3,000 swords, machetes found in Florida woman Nickole Dykema’s home

Once inside the home police realized the woman had over 500 weapons in the tiny residence (above)

Police in Heando County, Florida, found a house of horror when they discovered around 3,500 bladed weapons in a woman’s home Tuesday, WFLA reports.

Nickole Dykema, 47, of Brooksville had warrants for her arrest when deputies, probation and parole officers arrived at her mobile home around 10 p.m. Police saw her staring out of a broken window and when they ordered her to come out of the house she “told the officers to ‘leave her property,’” WFLA reports.

Officers entered the home, where Dykema then took out a “large machete-type weapon and attempted to stab an officer, missing his head by inches,” according to WFLA. The woman then hid under a blanket and waved around a “long, shiny sword,” WFLA reports. While a Crisis Response Team was called to the home, Dykema ran into another room that had around 500 swords.

“Deputies say that many rooms in her home contained at least that many weapons,” WFLA reported. By 5 p.m. Wednesday, police were still removing the weapons from her home.

Deputies used a Taser to take Dykema into custody and nobody was injured, according to the Heando County Sheriff’s Office. She was charged with several counts of probation violation, property damage/criminal mischief, resisting an officer without violence and assault on a law enforcement officer.

Dykema has been previously arrested on charges such as carrying a concealed weapon and providing a false name to law enforcement. She is being held without bond and the case is still under investigation.