A Vancouver woman accused of ramming a sheriff’s patrol car while trying to escape arrest appeared in Clark County Superior Court on Thursday.
Angela M. McCalip, 45, faces allegations of first-degree assault, attempting to elude and possession of a controlled substance, stemming from an incident Wednesday night.
Clark County sheriff’s Deputy Phil Walker stopped a Chevrolet pickup for an obstructed license plate in the 12300 block of Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard about 10:30 p.m. The lone occupant of the vehicle reportedly identified herself as McCalip and said her driver’s license was suspended and that she had an outstanding warrant for her arrest, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in Superior Court.
While Walker was contacting another officer, McCalip allegedly started her vehicle and drove away without headlights on through the parking lot of a restaurant, heading south on Northeast 123rd Avenue, court records said.
Walker said he knew it was a dead-end street and assumed McCalip was going to leave the vehicle and run. He turned into the neighborhood and deactivated his overhead emergency lights. He then saw that McCalip had turned around in the pickup and was traveling north on the street toward him without lights on. Walker said he provided McCalip an escape route to avoid a collision, but she continued at high speed and rammed the passenger’s side of his patrol vehicle, according to the affidavit.
She then allegedly fled east on Fourth Plain, deputies said.
Walker was uninjured, but his car was disabled, according to the sheriff’s office.
McCalip reportedly fled north on Ward Road and west on Northeast 76th Street. Other deputies spotted the truck in the 7500 block of Northeast Meadows Drive, where they pinned it and arrested McCalip, the sheriff’s office said.
During the Thursday hearing, Judge Daniel Stahnke appointed Bob Yoseph to represent McCalip.
The prosecution said McCalip has an extensive criminal history, including attempting to elude, and four active warrants from the county. She also reportedly has a felony warrant out of Mississippi.
McCalip allegedly told deputies that the reason she fled was because she didn’t want to be arrested again, the prosecution said.
Stahnke ordered she remain in custody in lieu of $350,000 bail.
She is scheduled to be arraigned May 29.
