LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police in Indiana say the pursuit of a shoplifting suspect from Louisville ended in a crash in Indiana Wednesday afternoon.
According to Sgt. Carey Huls of the Indiana State Police, the chase started on Interstate 65, in Jackson County. Police were pursuing a Louisville woman who was suspected of shoplifting from the Polo Ralph Lauren store at the Premium Outlet Mall in Edinburgh, Indiana.
Trooper Korry Clark stopped the woman, identified by ISP as 23-year-old Ta'neasha Chappell, and got her to get out of her car. But when Clark attempted to take Chappell into custody, she got back into the car and sped away. Clark suffered a "minor abrasion" in the incident.
Police placed several "stop sticks" in the interstate in an effort to stop her, but she managed to evade them. After a 30-minute chase across three counties that at points reached above 100 mph, she eventually crashed into a ditch near Exit 7 — the State Road 60 exit — from southbound I-65 at Hamburg in Clark County, Indiana.
Chappell tried to run but was arrested after being tased. Several stolen items, valued at more than $3,000, were found in her car. And just before ISP began chasing Chappell, Clark stopped another car on I-65 near Seymour on a separate report that two people had stolen items from the same Polo Ralph Lauren store. The Edinburgh Police Department arrested two people — Haamiyna Kamose, 24, and Da'miya Tooley, 23 — of Louisville. Both are charged with theft after troopers found them with stolen merchandise totaling nearly $7,000.
Chappell was taken to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour before being booked into the Jackson County Jail on numerous felony and misdemeanor charges.
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