A 40-year-old woman wanted in a hit-and-run investigation was arrested Monday evening after she allegedly crashed into several cars in the parking lot of a Fern Creek supermarket and came close to hitting a Louisville Metro Police officer and shoppers.
The incident started around 5 p.m. in the parking lot of the Kroger at the Cedar Springs shopping center in the 6900 block of Bardstown Road in Fern Creek. That is where officers spotted Charley Isaac, a person of interest in a recent hit-and-run case, parked in a red Ford F-150 pickup truck.
An officer asked Isaac to get out of the truck but she refused, so a backup officer was called to the scene.
As the backup officer arrived, the first officer tried to use a tool to break the driver’s window. That is when police said Isaac pressed the gas and started going full speed forward and backwards.
Police said she rammed several cars, including a marked Louisville Metro Police Department SUV, and came close to hitting a shopper who jumped out of the way. She also narrowly missed a Louisville Metro Police officer twice.
After using the truck to push a vehicle out of the way, police said Isaac drove recklessly toward the front of the store where shoppers were exiting before she crashed into two more vehicles, disabling the truck. She then took off on foot toward Bardstown Road.
Police and a passerby quickly caught up to her in front of a nearby animal hospital.
Officers said they smelled alcohol on Isaac’s breath, and her eyes were red and bloodshot. She refused to give officers her correct name. Once police confirmed her identity, they discovered her license is suspended and she is wanted on multiple warrants.
Officers were unable to conduct field sobriety tests because Isaac was “hysterical” at the scene, according to the arrest report, and was belligerent with corrections performing blood alcohol tests.
Isaac now faces eight new charges, including: two counts of wanton endangerment, operating a vehicle under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident, two counts of fleeing or evading police, operating on a suspended license, and giving police false information.
Her previous charges include assault, burglary, theft, menacing, tampering with physical evidence, tampering with a prisoner monitoring device, escape, and criminal mischief.
A judge set Isaac’s bond at $50,000 full cash during her court appearance Tuesday. A not-guilty plea was entered on her behalf. She will be represented by a court appointed public defender.
Isaac is due back in court on November 26.
Source: WDRB
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