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from www.sheboyganpress.com – What began as a report of swimmers in distress ended with criminal charges Friday for a nude, intoxicated woman who was pulled from Lake Michigan by firefighters — despite her best efforts to fight them off.

Victoria M. Ketner, 19, of West Bend, was standing on a sandbar with two other people when the first police officer arrived on scene, but she refused orders to come to shore, a criminal complaint said. The incident took place about 12:30 a.m. near the Edgewater Generating Station.

A man who was in the water with Ketner told police the two were having sex in the water around the time someone called authorities to report swimmers were in distress.

The complaint said the first officer on scene yelled to the three people to come to shore. The man followed orders, but Ketner and another woman began swimming north.

The other woman eventually came to shore, but Ketner refused.

Authorities summoned a U.S. Coast Guard boat to pull Ketner out, but she stayed in shallow water where the boat was unable to go. The Sheboygan Fire Department then arrived on scene in a smaller boat, and they were able to pull Ketner from the water despite her attempts to fight with them, the complaint said.

On shore, Ketner refused to give her name and swore at officers. Police said she had slurred speech and smelled of intoxicants.

Ketner is charged with misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct, which carry a maximum combined penalty of one year in jail. She was also cited for underage drinking.

The man having sex with Ketner told police she had refused to leave the water earlier as well, the complaint said. Other group members wanted to leave while the two were having sex, and Ketner got upset and pushed the man away when he suggested resuming their activity at a friend’s house.

She then swam away and stayed in the water as the man and a male friend tried to bring her to shore.

The complaint makes no mention of the woman or the other swimmers being in distress, but Shift Commander Gary Kolberg of the fire department said it was nevertheless a serious situation.

“It was treated as an emergency situation because it was,” he said. “They were intoxicated and it could have become an emergency at any moment.”

The area — along Lakeshore Drive at Washington Avenue — is popular with swimmers because of warm water discharged from the power plant. The discharge, however, creates a strong outward current and creates a channel that causes a sandbar to abruptly drop from 3 feet to 12 feet or more.

A 42-year-old California man, Steven Link, drowned there in June.