Vivian Kathleen Walters can’t figure out why she’s sitting in the Snohomish County Jail.
She protested her arrest Wednesday in an Everett District Court courtroom, insisting loudly and often that she “owns” the Boeing Co. She also said she had a right to crash a gate, then drive at high speed through the Boeing complex in Everett at about 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Acting Judge Arnold Young was not impressed with her story or outbursts Wednesday. Neither were custodial officers, who hustled her out of the courtroom as she was still shouting.
“I was on my own property,” she yelled to the judge. “No one has ever established I wasn’t on my property.”
Walters is being held for investigation of second-degree burglary, second-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief. Young set bail at $20,000. Everett police spokesman Sgt. Boyd Bryant said he did not immediately know where Walters lives.
Everett police were summoned to Boeing plant gate E-77 just after 11 p.m. Tuesday, Bryant said. Officers found Walters sitting in the back of a Boeing security car. Her Mazda 626 had a damaged front end, and a chain-link gate had been smashed.
Security officers told police that Walters had driven through the gate at about 60 mph. Once inside, she continued to drive at high rates of speed, court documents said.
She also drove into a large building where about a dozen employees had been working, documents said. The employees told police she drove in circles at high speed inside the building, and then drove out.
A Boeing security officer pursued her car, activating his emergency lights in hopes of warning pedestrians, documents said. Walters drove back toward the gate she had crashed through, court documents said.
This time, her car struck a support pole and stop sign, halting the vehicle. The security officer pulled up behind her, preventing the car from backing up, documents said.
She was taken to Providence Everett Medical Center’s Pacific Campus for a checkup.
It’s the second time this month that a woman has been arrested in the county in connection with driving through a security gate.
A 56-year-old Edmonds woman allegedly rammed a Snohomish County Jail gate April 3, causing extensive damage. Lynn Francis Johnson told police she was trying to break into jail to bet away from the Russian mafia. Johnson now is being evaluated at Western Sate Hospital, deputy prosecutor Chris Dickinson said.
Reporter Jim Haley: 425-339-3447 or haley@heraldnet.com.
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