A Flippin woman has been arrested following a two-county pursuit. Four charges have been filed against 61-year-old Lynda Louise Woodruff following the incident which was not the first time she tried to outrun the police.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Cotter Police Department, an officer attempted to pull over a vehicle. The license plate showed unconfirmed insurance and the registered owner, Woodruff, showed to have a warrant out of Baxter County.
Woodruff refused to pull over and the pursuit continued west into Marion County at speeds up to 80 miles-per-hour until she turned onto State Highway 101 and then went down several county roads, nearly striking some construction workers.
Woodruff eventually came to a dead end, jumped out of her vehicle and fled on foot. The officer was able to catch up to her, deploy his taser and take her into custody.
Woodruff is facing a felony charge of fleeing in a vehicle, along with misdemeanor charges of fleeing on foot, reckless driving and having no insurance.
She is being held in the Baxter County Detention Center on bonds totaling $7,500.
She is also being held on a probation violation.
Woodruff was sentenced to four years of probation of part of a plea deal in December of 2022 for an incident that happened in December of 2021.
According to that report, Woodruff was leaving a gas station on State Highway 5 South in Mountain Home when she struck another vehicle and kept pushing it until it was out of her way. In doing this, she pushed it into another vehicle.
A Baxter County Sheriff’s deputy was traveling in the area and noticed the disturbance and a vehicle leaving in a reckless manner and tried to make a traffic stop on it. Instead, the vehicle, which was being driven by Woodruff, sped off at a high rate of speed, nearly sideswiping a vehicle and hitting another head on.
That pursuit went across the bypass then, after Woodruff nearly caused a head on crash, onto Old Tracy Road, where speeds were 70 miles-per-hour with Woodruff driving on the wrong side of the road before she stopped and surrendered.
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