A WOMAN FACES A SLEW OF CHARGES AFTER LEADING APD OFFICERS ON A CAR CHASE THAT STARTED ON COCHITI SOUTHEAST JUST BEFORE 10 MONDAY NIGHT.
OFFICER FRED DURAN SAYS THEY SPOTTED 35 YEAR OLD PATSY ANAYA ARGUING WITH AND FOLLOWING HER BOYFRIEND IN A WHITE HONDA AS HE WALKED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. WHEN THEY APPROACHED 31 YEAR OLD CHRIS NORKUS, ANAYA DROVE OFF, BUT LATER RETURNED … RUSHING OFFICERS AND NORKUS WITH THE VEHICLE, THEN SLAMMING ON THE BRAKES BEFORE ANYONE WAS HIT.
SHE TOOK OFF AGAIN AND POLICE CALLED FOR AN AERIAL PURSUIT. ANAYA RETURNED FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES … AND OFFICERS DISABLED TWO TIRES WITH A SPIKE STRIP. BUT ANAYA KEPT DRIVING … SO THE CHASE CONTINUED. NOT EVEN SPIKE STRIPS THAT PUNCHED OUT HER TIRES CONVINCED ANAYA TO STOP. DURAN SAYS POLICE FINALLY STOPPED ANAYA’S VEHICLE BY BLOCKING HER IN WITH PATROL CARS AT PENNSYVANIA AND I-40.
HE SAYS SHE ACTUALLY WAS DRUNK THE WHOLE TIME .. HAD TWO KIDS, AGES 12 AND 16, IN THE CAR WHO WERE NOT INJURED. HE SAYS THEY ALSO FOUND 18 EMPTY ALCOHOL MINI CONTAINERS AND THREE BEER CANS IN THE VEHICLE. SHE AND NORKUS ARE BOTH IN THE MDC. BOTH HAVE PRIOR ARREST RECORDS.
