CENTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Investigators say a woman who was detained on shoplifting suspicions somehow managed to climb through a police cruiser’s glass partition and speed away while remaining handcuffed.
What followed was a high-speed chase, with speeds reaching over 100 mph, through several small towns located about 40 miles outside of Pittsburgh.
According to police in Center Township, Beaver County, a security guard first stopped Roxanne Rimer, 27, at a Kohl’s for suspected shoplifting.
Investigators said she told her grandfather and mother, who was the passenger in the car, to drive away. When they wouldn't, she put her foot on the gas, and the car went over a hillside. Police arrived and then put Rimer in handcuffs, but they say that's when she continued to act defiantly.
Police say she then pushed a security guard and ran out of the store to her grandfather's car.
Channel 11 learned that Rimer is a mother of two, who has lost custody of both children. She also has two prior theft charges against her in Center Township.