They found the white SUV driving on train tracks. Once they made contact with the driver, police officers in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, didn’t expect a chase. Especially one that landed them at the glass front of an Ulta, watching the SUV driver repeatedly switch from drive to reverse, digging the car further and further into shelved inventory.

It was after midnight on Sunday, November 9 when officers initially approached the SUV. One of the tires was clearly going flat. They spotted an open container inside the vehicle.

Once they started interacting with the driver, though, she refused to cooperate. Instead, she hit the gas, leaving three officers racing back to their cruiser.

She hit a dead end, but turned right and barrelled down an alley. The path led to a glass-laden Ulta store.

“She has crashed into Ulta, crashed into Ulta”

Initially, two officers approach the crashed car, demanding she stop. Instead of following orders, she reverses and hits the gas.

“Despite her vehicle being fully lodged inside the building, the driver attempted to flee again, backing up and ramming a patrol car,” the Royal Oak Police Department reported in a social media press release.

The SUV comes hurtling out of Ulta, and the officers jump out of the way. She rams the cruiser, then puts it in drive.

Back into the store she goes, pushing further into the building. She reverses again, this time, clearly attempting to turn the vehicle and clear the cruiser.

At this point, she’s blocked by another cruiser, with more arriving.

In what seems like a last-ditch effort, it looks like the driver decides to just carry on through Ulta rather than the way of the cops.

She doesn’t make it all the way through, though. Eventually, police get her out of the SUV and complete the arrest.

On November 10, the local magistrate charged the driver with a beauty-routine-long list: fleeing police, assault/resist/obstruct police, felonious assault, malicious destruction of a building, malicious destruction of personal property, and malicious destruction of police property. If convicted, felony charges listed carry prison terms ranging from two to 10 years.

The driver has a previous “operating while intoxicated” conviction from 2023.

As for the damage to the Ulta store, Royal Oak PD say they don’t have an estimate, but it was pretty well messed up.