Dashcam Shows Woman Stealing Cop Car After Escaping Handcuffs

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An Alexandria woman is facing multiple charges after making like Harry Houdini and speeding off in a squad car after authorities had arrested her for arson. Jennifer Hillard, age 35, was charged in Douglas County Court Monday with felony theft of a motor vehicle, possession of methamphetamine, and operating a vehicle under the influence of a controlled substance. Just before 6:45 p.m. Sunday police and fire crews were dispatched to an apartment building on the 500 block of Broadway on a fire alarm sounding and smoke coming from the building. When they arrived first responders found a fire burning on the living room floor and put it out. It seemed at first that no one was home but officers soon heard a crash and discovered a woman’s leg hanging out of the ceiling of the laundry room. An officer retrieved a ladder and was about ready to climb up and look into the ceiling when Hillard crashed through the ceiling tiles and landed hard on the ground.

When police asked her what she was doing she told them a man had entered her apartment and she was trying to get away. Officers soon found that the woman had a glass pipe with methamphetamine residue on it in her pocket. At that point Hillard was handcuffed, escorted to a police cruiser and placed in the back seat. Officers went back inside to take pictures and process the scene, but were soon notified by dispatch that GPS indicated that the squad car Hillard had been placed in was moving. They ran outside and found the cruiser was gone. Video from inside the car later showed that Hillard had slipped one hand out of the handcuffs, crawled through the glass sliding window that separates the front and back seats, slid into the drivers seat and sped off.

Electronic tracking says Hillard hit speeds of between 100 and 126 mph as she drove towards the city of Osakis with emergency lights activated. An Osakis Police officer began a pursuit that finally ended when a State Trooper deployed stop sticks near the city of Sauk Center. When being questioned investigators say Hillard refused to cooperate, and at one point stuck her pinkie knuckle deep in one of her eyes. Jennifer Hillard is being held in the Douglas County Jail. She already has two felony controlled substance cases pending, one in Todd County from May and one in Hennepin County that occurred November 2.

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