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Fleeing car crashes into home

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Fleeing car crashes into home

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Christine Reid
Fleeing car crashes into home

An Oklahoma City woman’s apparent effort to flee arrest ended Sunday morning when she drove her Jeep through a local child’s bedroom wall.

Criminal charges were still pending at press-time Tuesday against the driver, Tabatha Nicole Patterson, 37.

The residents of the house, located at the T-intersection of Chisholm Drive and Seventh Street, were not reported injured.

Patterson’s Jeep was traveling south on Seventh Street at speeds in excess of 60 miles per hour through a residential neighborhood with a posted limit of 25, according to Kingfisher Police Officer Aaron Schlegal who was in pursuit.

Schlegel had stopped Patterson’s vehicle on South Sevent Street between Bowman and Erwin avenues about 8:05 a.m. Sunday for an apparently expired tag.

According to Schlegel’s report, the tag came up as expired in the state computer system even though it was affixed with a 2022 registration sticker.

The female driver first identified herself as Keara Dawn Harrison and said her license was suspended, according to the report.

In response to Schlegel’s question about drugs in the car, the driver admitted to having marijuana and produced what she said was a THC vape pen.

She told Schlegel she didn’t have a medical marijuana license and then admitted she had given a false name and provided her actual name and date of birth, according to the report.

Schlegal asked her to step out of the car and empty her pockets and then asked her to leash the pit bull in the back seat so that he could be safely removed from the car while Schlegel continued to search the vehicle for additional drugs, according to the report.

The driver leaned into the front passenger’s seat and began rifling through a bag, apparently searching for the dog’s leash.

Schlegel returned to his patrol car to retrieve a leash he kept there when Patterson got back into her car, put the vehicle in gear and fled the scene, heading south on Seventh Street, according to the report.

Schlegel got into his car and pursued the Jeep, which crashed into the house a few blocks later.

Patterson jumped from the vehicle after the crash and Schlegel pursued her on foot.

She ran behind the house, jumped a chain link fence behind a neighboring house, then a wooden privacy fence behind 109 W. Chisholm and went through a gate in the fence to get back to the front of the house where Schlegel found her sitting on the ground, according to his report.

She was cuffed and transported via ambulance to Mercy Hospital Kingfisher, where she submitted to a blood test and then was scanned to rule out injuries, according to the report.

At the scene, officers found two quantities of drugs which tested positive for marijuana and methamphetamine as well as a handgun.

Patterson allegedly admitted to carrying the handgun for protection.