EVERETT — She wasn’t going to get away a second time.
On Christmas Day, for more than 11 miles, police chased a woman before she crashed her blue Chevrolet Cobalt into a ditch.
Three days earlier, when she’d spotted an Everett police officer near Silver Lake, the woman, 49, allegedly fled. She had a warrant out for her arrest from a previous third-degree assault conviction. That time she got away, court papers say.
Around noon Wednesday the same officer reportedly saw the woman again, this time parked at Hauge Homestead Park, not far from where he’d seen her days before. The officer pulled up in front of her car.
“She had a panicked look on her face,” the officer wrote.
As he got out of his patrol car, the woman turned the wheels to the right and surged toward him, according to an arrest report. He ordered her by name to stop and told her she was under arrest.
She swore at the officer, hopped a curb and drove off, records show.
Soon after, a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy spotted the car near Lowell Larimer Road, just outside of Everett.
Around 12:20 p.m., the deputy turned on his emergency lights to pull her over.
Instead, she reportedly turned onto Highway 9 and headed north. Once she passed King Charley’s Drive-In, she turned onto eastbound U.S. 2.
“As I continued, she was turning around flipping me off with her right hand,” the deputy wrote.
During the pursuit both vehicles reached roughly 100 mph, according to a police report.
Up the road, the Washington State Patrol set up spike strips near Fryelands Boulevard. She hit the trap, and her car crashed into a ditch.
Even then, she reportedly wouldn’t follow officers’ commands to show her hands and get out of the car. She had a cigarette in her mouth, an unidentified object in her left hand and appeared to be reaching for something with her right hand, which was hidden from view. A deputy struck her several times in the arm and chest with a baton. It turned out she had been reaching for a beer.
Deputies forced her out of the car and arrested her. She was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of a parole violation, resisting arrest and two counts of attempt to elude. Officers say she is homeless in Everett, but court papers list her last known address as Camano Island.
On Thursday her bail was set at $100,000.
Stephanie Davey: 425-339-3192; sdavey@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @stephrdavey.
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