Cheyenne Nicole Collier, inset, was arrested after crashing into a cemetery in Georgia. (Photos from the Lavonia Police Department; Mug shot from Oconee County Sheriff’s Office [South Carolina])
A high-speed police chase ended this week in a dead end when a woman being pursued across state lines crashed her truck into a Georgia cemetery.
Cheyenne Nicole Collier, 23, was booked into custody on warrants, according to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina.
The bone-rattling tale began at 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday. A deputy on patrol on West Bennett Road near Westminster spotted a dark blue Scion with a Georgia tag with a license plate cover over the tag, authorities said.
Based on that traffic violation and that the deputy believed the Scion had left the scene of a shoplifting at a business in Westminster on Monday afternoon, the motorist was pulled over.
The driver pulled over, and she was identified. A check with dispatch showed her driver’s license had been suspended and she had a general sessions bench warrant for possession of methamphetamine and a magistrate bench warrant out of Walhalla, officials said.
When the deputy tried to take her into custody, she allegedly put her vehicle into drive and drove off, nearly dragging the deputy with the vehicle. The deputy returned to his vehicle and initiated a pursuit, chasing her along roads, onto highways and into Georgia.
Collier exited off I-85, and the pursuit ended on Arlington Drive in Lavonia, where she allegedly ran from the vehicle before being quickly taken into custody, authorities said.
In a tickle-the-funnybones kind of Facebook post on Tuesday, the Lavonia Police Department displayed photos from the cemetery crash with a caption reading:
“In case you saw or heard the law enforcement commotion, well it wasn’t us. Apparently the Oconee County, SC Sheriff’s Office tried to stop a female motorist that was late for an appointment and she decided to keep going down 85, through Lavonia, and into the Lavonia Cemetery.”
“She will now be staying with Sheriff Thomas for a while then off to the OC in SC.”
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