Handcuffed Woman Squeezes Under Cop Car Cage Window And Drives Away

AUSTIN, TX — A handcuffed, detained woman managed to squeeze her body under a cage window of a Travis County Sheriff’s patrol car and drive it away. While still handcuffed.

According to the affidavit, a Travis County deputy pulled over the car of Candice Asdahl, 22, near the intersection of Ed Bluestein Blvd. and Loyola Lane after she failed to use her turn signal at a turn and during a lane change.

When the deputy approached her car, he said he saw her holding a “marijuana cigar,” which she then tried to hide and destroy. The deputy said he restrained her, handcuffed her and detained her for attempting to destroy physical evidence. He placed her in the back of his patrol car.

The deputy then went back to Asdahl’s car to look for evidence. While he was doing that, Asdahl brought her cuffed hands under and around her legs and feet, squeezed through the cage window that separates the front from the rear seats in the patrol car and drove the car away.

The deputy and another deputy followed her in another patrol car as she drove north on Highway 183 and onto other streets, sometimes exceeding 130 m.p.h. The deputies lost track of her around Highway 183 and Highway 290 West, but her whereabouts were tracked by an “automatic vehicle locator” in the patrol car.

Asdahl’s wild ride came to an end when she crashed the patrol car into an iron-rod fence at an apartment complex in the 6700 block of Berkman Drive and tried to flee on foot. Austin police found her about fifty yards away with the handcuffs still on.

Asdahl has been charged with escape from custody, a third-degree felony. Damage to the stolen patrol car is estimated at $2,500.

JOKESTARTERS:

• Hey, now we know Nicole Richie’s alias! Nobody else could be skinny enough to slide under one of those cop car cages.
• Obviously this female suspect was on “the grass.” I mean, how else can you explain this erratic behavior? Too bad she didn’t get the munchies though…that would’ve kept her from sliding under the cage thingy.

SOURCE:

• KEYE-TV