A 20-year-old woman fleeing Edmonds police lost control of the vehicle she was driving and ended up in a water-filled ravine near Premera Blue Cross in Mountlake Terrace New Year’s morning.
According to Edmonds police spokesman Sgt. Josh McClure, the woman — with ties to Tacoma — wasn’t obviously injured but was taken to Swedish Edmonds for a precautionary evaluation.
Edmonds police Sgt. Robert Barker stopped the woman, who was driving a Honda Accord, on Highway 99 around 216th Street Southwest at about 8:45 a.m. after he observed her weaving in traffic. When Barker began to approach, she quickly drove away, heading eastbound on 216th, where she lost control of the vehicle and went down an embankment on the north side of the Premera property, McClure said.
The woman attempted exit the vehicle but was slowed as the car sank further into the water. She was taken into custody without further incident.
Police discovered that the woman had been stopped approximately two hours earlier in Shoreline, where she had been issued a ticket. She also has approximately $50,000 in outstanding warrants.
According to McClure, the key found in the vehicle ignition didn’t belong to a Honda and officers are working to determine if the car was stolen.
The woman will be booked into the Snohomish County Jail for attempting to elude a police vehicle. Additional charges are pending the outcome of the investigation.
Edmonds Police were on the ball, what happened with Shoreline? Why was she not arrested earlier on outstanding warrants and taken off the street?
If the warrants are only extraditable out of the county/city they were issued in, then there was nothing Shoreline could do. They can’t just take her in for a warrant that the issuing agency won’t pick her up on. Edmonds now has a felony eluding charge. So after that charge is sorted, since she is already in the court system for the new charge, she will be transferred to whatever court those warrants were issued through so she can answer to them.
Thank you for the explanation…I was wondering the same thing as Mr. Murdock.
This could be the same woman who tried to steal our dog a few weeks ago. Somehow the perpetrator opened the locked doors of our Honda Accord and lured our dog Chewla away with food (some guard dog you are, Chewla!). Luckily a man pointed my wife the direction they had gone and Chewla pulled away and came as she was called. I wrote a letter about this recently. Hondas (both Civic and Accord) in the 1990s can be broken into easily, making them a very popular target of ne’er-do-wells. I guess an alarm system is a good idea, especially if you drive an older Honda. On the other hand, if it went off it might wake up Chewla.