'She's trying to run': Woman speeds Ford Focus onto sidewalk chasing child on dirt bike before trying to break into man's home, deputies say

A Washington state woman spotted a kid riding a ungraded motorcycle connected a sidewalk and sped her car aft him earlier trying to interruption into a stranger's home, authorities say.

Wendy A. Clemente, 56, has been charged with first-degree attempted assault, DUI, and first-degree transgression trespass, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office announced this week. She was booked into the Spokane County Jail and aboriginal released.

On April 28, astatine astir 6:05 p.m., deputies said they responded to a study of a "reckless and assertive driver" successful the 7500 artifact of South Fruitvale Road successful Cheney, Washington, a tiny metropolis conscionable southwest of Spokane. A operator of a Ford Focus "drove up connected the sidewalk" successful a vicinity and "attempted to deed a juvenile" riding a ungraded bike, constabulary said.

The operator — alleged to person been Clemente — "chased the juvenile connected the sidewalk earlier reentering the roadway and leaving the area." Investigators past obtained a cellphone video of the incident.

The video begins with a metallic sedan driving down a residential roadworthy with its horn honking. "This lady's crazy," idiosyncratic adjacent to the camera says. The car past turns near toward the child, with the kid looking backmost astatine the driver.

The camera loses way of its subjects, but arsenic soon arsenic it returns to them, we spot the car is connected the sidewalk immoderate 10 to 15 yards down the child. "She's trying to tally …" the idiosyncratic adjacent the video says and past gasps erstwhile the car sped up.

Several different radical tin beryllium seen reacting to the startling show arsenic the car returns to the road. Deputies said that the kid "was not deed oregon injured," and they began searching the country for the suspect.

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About 25 minutes later, the sheriff's bureau said its deputies were told astir a imaginable burglary astatine a location successful the 10700 artifact of West Melville Road, astir 1 mile away. A antheral said helium was watching idiosyncratic connected his unrecorded information strategy "trying doorway handles, and it was unclear if the fishy entered the residence."

Deputies arrived astatine the West Melville Road code and recovered Clemente and her metallic Ford Focus parked successful the victim's driveway.

They arrested and interviewed her. She reportedly explained that she was taking "her canine for a ride" and looking for different dogs for it to "socialize with" erstwhile she noticed a canine successful this fenced yard. "She admitted she did not cognize the unfortunate and denied entering oregon attempting to participate his residence," the sheriff's bureau added.

Clemente said "she did not remember" the incidental with the juvenile connected the ungraded bike. Furthermore, portion she initially "denied drinking intoxicant oregon consuming immoderate drugs," she "later changed her communicative and admitted to drinking alcohol," deputies said.

But erstwhile deputies tried to spot her successful the backmost of a patrol vehicle, Clemente allegedly resisted and tried to footwear a deputy. She was restrained, and authorities "were granted a hunt warrant to get a illustration of Clemente's blood" for testing.

Clemente made her archetypal quality successful tribunal the pursuing day, wherever a superior tribunal justice allowed her to beryllium released without needing to station bond.