EVERETT — She really didn’t want to go to jail.
That’s what the Everett woman tearfully told a Washington State Patrol trooper Wednesday morning as she was being arrested.
The trooper had a pretty good notion that was the case before she started talking.
He twice resorted to shooting an electronic stun gun at her before she stopped running.
The woman allegedly hit a car on I-5 early Wednesday morning. She headed onto I-405 with the driver of the other car following her. The trooper tried to pull her over.
She allegedly drove on the right shoulder and, with bumper-to-bumper traffic, went onto the grass along the highway to pass other cars. She then crashed into a fallen tree.
She and a passenger both allegedly tried to run off, even after the trooper drew his handgun.
The woman, 26, reportedly ran across the southbound lanes of the freeway.
“I chased her across the freeway and grabbed her just as she was trying to jump over the guard rail and into the northbound lanes of I-405,” the trooper wrote.
The trooper said the woman pulled free from his grasp and crawled under the guard rail.
He wrote that he warned her he would shoot her with his Taser if she kept running.
The trooper made good on his warning “seconds before she ran out into traffic.” She fell to the ground, but got up and again was about to run into traffic when he fired again. Only then did she give up.
The woman allegedly gave him a false name and birthdate.
Her passenger tried to run off, too, but was chased by the driver of the other car and was convinced by the trooper to stop. The man was arrested on a parole violation.
The woman was arrested for investigation of eluding police, possessing heroin, criminal impersonation, resisting arrest, hit and run, driving with a suspended license and obstructing a police officer.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com
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