“I had to wear earplugs to sleep and noise-canceling headphones just to talk around in the condo,” said the woman, who did not want to be identified.
The victim said the noise would rattle her Dr. Phillips condo at different times throughout the day.
Investigators said a system with speakers was set up so that the suspect, Marianna Seachrist, 41, could set the noise off anywhere, anytime and with a smartphone.
Seachrist’s downstairs neighbor said she never expected the noise from the condo above to affect her life so much.
“You couldn’t sit at the dining room table. You couldn’t be in the kitchen. I had to wear foam earplugs,” the neighbor said.
She said the noise would sometimes shake the walls.
Deputies responded at least eight times to Seachrist’s condo, and sometimes, they heard the noise as well.
But Seachrist would never be home or didn’t answer.
Residents started keeping a detailed log and eventually got an injunction.
When the noise didn’t stop, deputies got a search warrant and forced their way through the front door last week. Read more: