Woman arrested at movie theater after fleeing from cops, crashing truck, Lacey police say
A 33-year-old woman was arrested late last month at an area movie theater after she fled from police and crashed a stolen truck near Interstate 5, according to Lacey police.
The woman also had a 4-year-old boy with her.
About noon March 27, police received a report of a person checking vehicle doors at a Walmart parking lot. Police said when they arrived, the woman drove off in a pickup truck.
“Several officers were able to keep the truck in their line of sight as it made its way through Lacey driving incredibly recklessly,” police said in a social media post.
Police eventually lost sight of the vehicle, but then received a report that she had crashed the truck near the on-ramp to I-5 at Martin Way, and was seen headed toward a nearby Park and Ride with the boy.
Police eventually located and detained the woman at the Regal Martin Village movie theaters just east of the Park and Ride.
She allegedly told police that she was waiting in the truck at Walmart while her friend prowled parking lot vehicles. The boy also was not hers, but belonged to a friend, according to police.
Police found shaved keys, pills and fentanyl in the truck, which was an unreported stolen vehicle out of Olympia, police said in a social media post.
The boy was reunited with a family member.
The woman was booked on suspicion of attempting to elude police and possession of a stolen vehicle, according to Thurston County jail information.
This story was originally published April 14, 2024 at 10:02 AM.
