Toscha Sponsler of Lufkin, Texas was arrested for shoplifting. To compound the charges, she slipped from the handcuffs while she was in the police vehicle and stole it, taking her pursuers at high speeds.
Sponsler stole the police vehicle and led officers on a 23-minute chase at speeds up to 100 mph, according to authorities. The chase ended after a state trooper used a PIT maneuver to make her lose control of the vehicle.
photoThroughout the chase, officers say they could see her reaching for the officer’s shotgun which was mechanically locked to the vehicle.
She waived medical treatment at the scene and was taken to the Angelina County Jail where she remains on an $18,000 bond.
Read more at Atlanta’s Fox 5
Bimbo!
Well, give her some street credit for being a real badass, even if she failed the final exam.
The officer gets his cruiser stolen and all he can manage is a “Gawd dang”.
Gotta love Texas.
She isn’t going anywhere this weekend.
“Bless her little heart”.
Y’know that LEO is gonna be the butt of many jokes over the next few years.
This is prime IDC SARC hitting material…
I’ll go ahead and beat him to the punch,
“I’d hit it like a pursuing patrol vehicle doing a PIT maneuver!!!”
LOLs
And this tape will be shown many times when some lawyer asks why the handcuffs were fastened so tightly around his client’s wrist as to cause discomfort.
And she came real close to getting shot would be my guess.
Mr Toad would be impressed.
Points to whoever gets the Kenneth Grahame reference.
Indeed a wild ride
Toscha, sounds like a candy you would buy from a Vermont Country Store catalogue. Maybe Sponsler will have to hire a sponsler as a character reference to get out on good behavior.
Nah, the only 3 things you can find in overabundance in Vermont are maple syrup, cheese, and heroin.
Not necessarily in that order.
Promote ahead of peers. Ms. Sponsler displays initiative, resourcefulness, and a never say quit attitude.
That made me laugh more than it should.
Now we just need Uncle to come see if she is stainless steel rat material.
A Slippery Jim diGriz reference! OUTSTANDING.
Somehow she doesn’t look like Angelina.
Nor does she speak Esperanto.
I’m sure she is thinking something like “Well, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time!”
We actually got training on how to handcuff woman like Ms. Sponsler, those with thin wrists and very small hands. And just to press home the point, they brought in a lady who fit the bill for our Scenario Finals at the police academy. There is a technique that works pretty well.
You HAD to arrest her so you could test out your hooking up skills. Many were called, few succeeded. In our defense, we got better at it on the street. Unlike this officer.
The next arresting officer should cuff her right wrist to her left ankle.
…in the trunk of the cruiser
This is why one puts up the Lexan divider in the roll bar/cage between the front and back seat. It prevents things like this from happening. Far cheaper to replace a door window in the cruiser, than do all the body repairs from a PIT maneuver/rollover. Or, you can just turn off the cruiser until you’re ready to drive her off to jail.
(watches video)
“Hmm. Nimble little minx.”
– DR Peter Venkman
Here’s some arrest information on Toscha Fay Sponsler:
https://www.policearrests.com/arrests/toscha_fay_sponsler_id_43255086.html
This was in my hometown and the police were very familiar with her and her boyfriend who was arrested a little before this happened. The local judges kept slapping her on the wrist but I think she will have to do some hard time for this one.
Huh, got kinfolk over thataway, JLMick27.
I would not put it past one of the judges to look at that cute young thang and give her a walk – again.
Hope you didn’t get tar on your car last week.
Naughty girl.
I’d hit it!
God what a woman! Vrrroooom!
I think the cops should hire her to teach them what to do when they run into clever people like her. It would alleviate all of her prior sins and stuff and give her a paycheck so that she could drop her troublemaking boyfriend, and become an honest woman.
The only thing that would teach that moron to be an honest woman, would be a major beatdown, so she completely understands, ‘IT HURTS LIKE HELL TO BE STUPID”, if mommy and daddy had beat her worthless ass, she wouldn’t be so stupid!!
Well points for initiative, zero points for actual execution.
Toscha Sponsler: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Well, she nailed the meth look thats for sure. I just worked an overdose case 2 days ago, 38 years old and I could not recognise the body as the fairly attractive woman staring at me from her license.
Sadly, ol Toscha will end up the same way I suspect.
She’s destructive and goes on rampages.
Maybe they’ll name a hurricane after her.
The story missed the several dozen ounces she was carrying as well.
She is going to be a guest of the state for some time to come.
Drives like my wife…
Man, talk about going from a bad to worse.. Some people just dont know when to quit and just shut up and color. Hopefully she will have plenty of time to reflect on the error of her ways but something tells me she wont.