65-year-old Alabama woman baits Mass. police into chasing her Mustang [Video]
Imagine you’re an officer with the police department in Dudley, Massachusetts. You arrive for your 7 AM shift a few minutes early and chat with the other officers in the parking lot. A Mustang with Alabama plates rolls up to your police station. Then it guns the throttle, races toward and empty cruiser, and slams the brakes at the last possible moment. What’s that about? As you watch, the driver does it again. And again.
Officer Dylan Reney sprang into action. He drove up to the Mustang and demanded to talk to the dangerous driver. The muscle car roared away. He flipped on his lights to pull it over, but the Mustang driver continued circling the parking lot with Officer Reney following it.
Sgt. Chandler Boyd tried to help Officer Reney stop the Mustang by boxing it in. Its driver wasn’t having it, they slipped through the parking lot’s one-way entrance. The (low speed) chase was on.
Despite a convoy of police officers in its rearview mirror, the Mustang refused to pull over. The Dudley Police Department followed the Mustang all the way to the neighboring town of Webster. The department radioed ahead to Webster Police who set up stop sticks to blow the Mustang’s tires. The Mustang driver swerved and evaded the spiked sticks.
The Mustang driver kept fleeing Dudley Police, so the officers chased it into the town of Douglas, Mass. The Douglas Police set up another stop stick trap and were finally able to halt the Mustang, which pulled into a parking lot.
Imagine everyone’s surprise when out steps 65-year-old Rebecca Roden. Odder still, she wasn’t a local with a grudge against her hometown police department. Roden is from Alabama.
Dudley Police took her back to the station where everything started. They charged her with failing to stop for police, negligent operation, violating marked lanes, and speed greater than what’s reasonable and proper. They also ran some tests and charged her with operating under the influence of drugs. In the official statement, the Dudley Police Department didn’t list any suspected motives. You can see the latest coverage in the vide embedded below:
