LYNNWOOD – The woman wanted to know why a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy ordered her to pull over.
Then she stomped down on the accelerator and nearly ran him down, police reported.
The woman, 32, led police on a chase down Highway 99 before she lost control and crashed into an oncoming vehicle, according to a police affidavit filed Thursday in Everett District Court.
“Clearly she was a threat to people, to the community,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said. “Deputies did what they had to do to stop her from causing more harm.”
The Lynnwood woman was arrested for investigation of first-degree assault and attempting to elude police. She also had two warrants for her arrest for obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving with a suspended license.
The woman appeared in court Thursday where a judge ordered her held on $30,000 bail.
Deputies were on a stakeout at the Monte Cristo Motel on Wednesday night when they spotted a suspicious Dodge pickup truck.
It was determined that the registered owner had a felony warrant, according to the police affidavit.
A deputy drove into the parking lot to block the exit, then got out of his patrol car and moved toward the back.
Then the pickup drove into the driver’s side door, the affidavit stated. The deputy ordered the woman to stop and turn off the truck.
The woman asked why. When the deputy told her the truck she was driving was registered to a man who was wanted on a warrant, the woman accelerated toward the deputy, according to court records.
The deputy escaped injury by jumping out of the way as the truck sped past him.
He and another deputy chased the fleeing truck in their squad cars. Somewhere on Highway 525 the pickup went out of control and crashed into an oncoming car, according to the affidavit.
No one was seriously hurt.
Just four months ago, the woman was with the man who owns the Dodge pickup when they were stopped by police. Both were arrested for investigation of drug possession. The woman allegedly told police she used rock cocaine.
The woman has at least five felony convictions for forgery and burglary, court records show.
She also has more than a dozen misdemeanor convictions for theft, assault, drug possession and driving with a suspended license.
Reporter Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463 or hefley@heraldnet.com.
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