It’s the same cast of characters — an Everett woman, 42, and the cops — using the same props — a stolen sport utility vehicle and spike strips.
The stories, one in March, and the second Wednesday night, ended nearly the same, with the woman discovering that trying to flee police on flat tires usually doesn’t end well.
In March, the woman sped away from police in Marysville at the wheel of a stolen SUV, at times driving into oncoming traffic. Despite having two tires flattened by police spike strips, she headed onto I-5. Once there, she bailed out along the freeway’s median and tried to get away by running across three lanes of traffic.
A judge sentenced her to six months in jail.
On Wednesday night, the woman was at it again, police said.
This time, she is accused of leading Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies on a 30-mile chase that began in Everett and stretched through Snohomish, Monroe and Sultan before ending in Gold Bar.
It began when Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies spotted a stolen SUV just before 11:30 p.m. near the intersection of 10th Drive SE and 126th Street SE in south Everett. When deputies tried to stop the vehicle, the driver hit the gas, court documents said.
The woman was driving with two passengers in the car, including the woman’s son, a 22-year-old Everett man, according to court papers.
The SUV headed north on I-5, then east over the U.S. 2 trestle, reaching speeds of at least 85 mph, possibly higher, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.
Deputies set out spike strips near Monroe to flatten the suspect’s tires.
“But they kept going,” Hover said.
Deputies ended the pursuit near Gold Bar when one of their patrol cars hit a guard rail, she said. The deputy at the wheel wasn’t injured and no one else was involved in the crash.
Deputies kept looking for the stolen SUV, and located it at the Cadman Gold Bar quarry in the 44700 block of U.S. 2. Deputies saw three sets of footprints leaving the vehicle, the documents said.
A police dog followed the tracks and found the woman, her son and a third man, 27, of Everett.
“The deputy and his canine partner did an amazing job conducting three separate tracks in three different directions,” Hover said.
After being arrested, the son told deputies that when his mother stopped the car, she said, “Run! I’m not getting in trouble for driving this again,” the documents said.
The two men were booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree auto theft. A judge on Thursday ordered them held on $5,000 bail.
The woman was booked into the jail for investigation of possession of a stolen vehicle and attempting to elude police vehicle. She was ordered held on $10,000 bail.
A convicted felon, the woman has a lengthy criminal history in addition to fleeing police. Over the past 10 years she has had convictions for forgery, drug, theft, driving while suspended and making false statements to police.
Reporter Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437 or jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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