July 17, 2019
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
An Oklahoma City woman has been sitting in the Custer County Jail on bonds totaling over half-a-million dollars after being charged with a series of felonies including drug charges.
Failing to stop at at least 7-stop signs and leading law enforcement on pursuits of 100 miles-an-hour on several instances, the woman – later identified as 31-year-old Amanda Ann Dobbs, according to a probable cause affidavit – was finally arrested on Interstate 40 following a 30-minute car chase.
The pursuit began about 4:26 pm on July 2, in the 1200 block of North Broadway Extension in Weatherford, 25 miles away, though the straight line doesn’t include several detours and zig-zags along the way.
A Weatherford patrolman originally observed Dobbs’ vehicle to allegedly fail to stop evenly at a marked stop line. He began following her 2008 light blue Mercury Mariner in order to conduct a traffic stop, but – instead – Dobbs sped up. Her vehicle sped through a multitude of stop signs in the city limits before she headed out eastbound on the interstate eventually clipping and damaging Fed Ex vehicle.
It wasn’t until the Hinton Police deployed stop sticks near the 101 exit of I-40, forcing Dobbs’ vehicle over them that brought the vehicle to a halt less than two miles down the road where she was arrested.
Once at the Weatherford jail, three plastic bags that allegedly contained a white, crystal substance were located on the defendant. One plastic bag was located in her bra, another inside her right pant leg and a third in her crotch area. The substances inside tested positive for methamphetamine with a total weight of 39.5 grams.
Also allegedly found with Dobbs were four pills that were believed to be ecstasy.
Dobbs has a lengthy criminal history record including trafficking narcotics – once in 2009 and twice in 2011.
She’s due in District Court on August 9 for a preliminary hearing.
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