The Phantom Impersonators
Frederick, MD
Police arrested a woman early Sunday after she led officers on a chase on I-270 north of Md. 85, according to Maryland State Police.
Trooper Ryan Shaffer tried to stop a woman, later identified as Diane Dipasquale, about 1:32 a.m. for a traffic violation on I-270, police said. Dipasquale, of Falling Waters, W.Va., continued onto westbound I-70 before taking the exit for U.S. 40A where she drove past a trooper who had set up stop sticks.
Dipasquale stopped after six marked police cars surrounded her, police said. She told police that she was afraid to stop because she believed police impersonators were following her.
Dipasquale was taken to the Frederick County Adult Detention Center and charged with resisting arrest, police said.
Found in the Frederick News-Post
July 16th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Like more than a half dozen people who own marked police cars just felt the need to harass some nobody.
On the other hand…..A traffic violation is no reason to deploy stop sticks and multiple officers for—take the license plate numbers and get with them later—-all they cause is someone to violate more laws than it’s worth.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am
The big problem with idiots who run from the law for a little traffic offense is that the police give them too much credit and have to assume they are not just idiots. They have to operate on the logic that if some dummy is going to run it is probably for a bigger reason like having a kidnapped kid in the car, a couple of kilos of cocaine that they will dump or hide if you don’t catch them with it now, the driver is already wanted for something major like murder, etc.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I wonder if she had forgotten her green card and was afraid of deportation from the land of milk and honey?
July 17th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Authority figures flexing their muscles. Never mind that other people run the risk of injury or death while they chase someone down. Six cars surrounding one woman….they probably feel like heroes.