Woman arrested after striking police vehicles in Poulsbo

A 31-year-old Seattle woman whose vehicle contained costumes with wigs was in Kitsap County Superior Court Jan. 12.

She was charged with attempting to elude a police vehicle and first-degree malicious mischief in Poulsbo.

Court papers say about 1 a.m. Jan. 11 an officer saw a vehicle turn without signaling and tried to pull it over. The vehicle accelerated north on Viking Avenue NW in Poulsbo. The vehicle crashed through the gate at Snider Park.

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The officer got outside his vehicle and attempted a high-risk stop, papers say. The officer said the vehicle headed toward him, “so I ran out of the way in fear that I was going to be struck.”

Another officer arrived, and the vehicle came toward both of them. The officers saw a woman driving and two men as passengers with their faces covered. The vehicle struck both patrol cars when the officers were behind them. Both escaped injury, as did a prisoner who was still in custody in the first officer’s car. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at several thousand dollars.

The woman then drove through a fence separating the park from Highway 3, leaving it “flattened like a pancake,” the court papers say. Her vehicle then crashed into a raised portion of concrete on the highway. All three took off running, but the first officer was able to catch the woman after a foot chase.

Back at the vehicle, another officer found various driver’s licenses, a credit card skimmer and costumes with wigs.

Bail was set at $100,000. If convicted of both she could face up to 15 years in prison and/or $30,000 in fines.