Handcuffed Womans Steals Police Car

A woman was arrested, handcuffed, and placed in the back seat of a squad car for trespassing on the campus of Lamar State College in Texas. She then crawled through the divider, and took off with five-oh’s car.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — A handcuffed woman was accused of swiping a Port Arthur police car and leading officers on a chase at speeds topping 100 mph. Police Chief Mark Blanton told KFDM-TV that nobody was injured in Friday’s chase involving a woman arrested on a trespassing charge at the Port Arthur campus of Lamar State College.

Blanton said a witness told police that the woman managed to slide open the prisoner screen that separates the front and rear areas of the patrol car, crawling from the rear seat into the driver’s seat. The officer was outside the running vehicle, completing his investigation.

Criminals baffle me sometimes. I guess she thought she would steal the car and get away, saw off the handcuffs, and duck off into society unnoticed.

I suppose she was thinking that if Harrison Ford and Wesley Snipes can do it, she can do it.