Bodycam shows woman rams Alliance police cruiser after domestic violence incident

A 31-year-old woman faces allegations that she struck two police cruisers on Tuesday, and also blocked another vehicle.

Around 6 p.m., in a parking lot near the police station, officers received a 911 call from a man who filed a police complaint against the woman. He said the woman blocked his vehicle with hers, restraining him from leaving the parking lot, and standing outside his door.

In their report, police said the woman saw officers and jumped back into her vehicle. The officers claimed she put her car in reverse, refusing to get out, and accelerated backward, crashing into the first cruiser. She also almost struck an officer. Then she drove forward over a cement barrier and sidewalk and struck the second cruiser, which was parked, before she stopped.

The woman remained combative and officers used a Taser − twice − to "gain compliance," the police report said. The officers said in the report they believed the woman was under the influence of medication and narcotics, and said she confirmed it.

A resident of Alliance, the woman remains in the Stark County Jail on a $100,000 bond set by Alliance Municipal Court Judge Andrew Zumbar on Wednesday. She faces charges of felonious assault, felony obstruction, unlawful restraint, resisting arrest and operating a vehicle impaired, court records showed.