Woman arrested after 3-county chase that started in Bloomington
A police chase through three counties that started in Bloomington ended on the southside of Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon with the arrest of an Ohio woman suspected of defrauding several banks.
Monroe County Sheriff's deputies that pursued the fleeing suspect's SUV from Vernal Pike and then north on I-69 stopped their chase before reaching the Monroe-Morgan county line because of safety concerns.
"The suspect's driving behavior continued to escalate as the vehicle was swerving from shoulder to shoulder, and in-between vehicles with very little room for error while traveling approximately 120 miles per hour," a news release from deputy Jeff Brown said. "Given that information, the on-duty supervisor terminated the pursuit."
After the white 2023 Chevrolet Equinox entered Morgan County, sheriff's deputies there restarted the pursuit near Liberty Church Road. It continued at high speeds, Brown said, until a Bargersville police officer positioned their car in a way to stop the fleeing SUV at the intersection of I-69 and I-465.
The incident started about 3:50 p.m. when police were notified by an employee of Crane Federal Credit Union on Jonathan Drive that a customer was using false documents to withdraw cash.
"It was later determined that the same female presented the same false identification card at two other Crane Credit Union locations (Plainfield and Franklin) for a total of $25,000 over the course of the afternoon," the news release said.
While searching the SUV, officers found $3,944 in cash and false identification cards. The woman was booked into the Morgan County Jail on preliminary charges of resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, reckless driving, identity deception and leaving the scene of an accident.
Contact H-T reporter Laura Lane at llane@heraldt.com or 812-318-5967.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Morgan, Johnson county police chase Ohio woman to Indy
