SPRING HILL — A Titusville woman was arrested on multiple felony charges late Thursday after leading Pasco deputies on a pursuit where she drove her car toward them and into an unoccupied patrol vehicle, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Deputies first stopped Allison Brooke Cooper, 35, in the area of U.S. 19 and Moog Road in New Port Richey, but she took off after a deputy noticed she was showing signs of severe impairment. Deputies followed as Cooper drove north on U.S. 19 until she stopped at the intersection of Main Street, the Sheriff's Office said.
When deputies approached Cooper's vehicle on foot, she put the car in reverse, turned her wheel and drove directly into their path before driving into a patrol car, deputies said. She then continued north on U.S. 19, where she sideswiped another vehicle.
Deputies deployed a tire-deflation device, causing a tire on the front of Cooper's car to pop. But she kept driving. Deputies followed her for another 18 miles before she turned into the entrance of Pasco-Hernando State College's Spring Hill campus, and was met with a closed fence.
Deputies said they entered Cooper's car through a window after she refused to comply with their commands from outside the car. When they tried to arrest her, she struggled, and deputies used a Taser and pepper spray to detain her, the Sheriff's Office said.
Cooper faces charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement office, criminal mischief, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer with violence and fleeing and eluding police with disregard of safety to persons or property. She is being held at Land O'Lakes Detention Center on $37,000 bond.
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