A pink-haired shoplifting suspect with fentanyl in her car struck a deputy and a patrol car Monday evening before being arrested after a short chase, authorities said.
Danielle Lambert, 34, initially pulled over when a deputy tracked her car from a shoplifting at Academy Sports.
Lambert pulled over and yelled to Deputy Joshua Mountain that she was trying to get home to her son on Brooks Drive. A second officer, Deputy Timothy Phillips, arrived and blocked her in, but she rammed the second patrol car as Deputy Mountain walked up to her, a sheriff’s report says.
“She immediately shifted the vehicle into reverse and accelerated backward, turning the wheel to maneuver her vehicle round Deputy Phillips,” Deputy Mountain said in the report. “While traveling in reverse, Danielle hit me with the front of her vehicle, knocking me off balance before continuing backward into the front of my patrol vehicle.”
The suspect then fled away on Hillbrook Drive but struck another person’s vehicle on Englewood Drive and disabled her Camaro. The driver of the other car was not injured, and officers took Lambert into custody as a resident recorded it on video.
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Lambert was found with 11 grams of fentanyl, sheriff’s Maj. Steve Morris.
“During her interview, Lambert stated she purchased 1 gram of fentanyl today and added an additional cutting agent in order to provide it to friends,” Maj. Morris said.
A search warrant was obtained and executed at Lambert’s residence. During the search drug paraphernalia was found.
Lambert was charged with trafficking fentanyl, obstruction, and two counts each of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, fleeing police, interference with government property and driving on a suspended license.
The Martinez woman has a history of offenses in Richmond and Columbia counties, with convictions for a decade-old burglary and multiple forgeries cases that led only to probation. Lambert has previous convictions for meth and cocaine possession that also earned only probation, according to online records. And a major 2017 case against the convicted felon for allegedly dealing meth, cocaine, heroin and marijuana while possessing weapons was simply dismissed three months after her arrest.
