Woman pleads guilty in police chase
A Beaver Falls woman, charged with leading police on a high-speed chase and almost hitting two people, pleaded guilty in Butler County Court on Monday.
Amy Barr, 30, pleaded guilty to felony fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, misdemeanor recklessly endangering another person, summary driving on a suspended license and accidents to unattended vehicles or property before county Judge William Shaffer on Monday.
Cranberry Township police said Barr's vehicle was seen by an officer on Powell Road, passing the police cruiser in the oncoming lane with an expired inspection sticker from 2014.
The officer turned around and attempted to stop the vehicle, which then sped off southbound on Powell toward Freedom Road, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
The vehicle continued south on Powell and turned left onto Mystic Pine Trail, where it continued through a church parking lot at a high rate of speed and almost struck a 3-year-old walking through the lot, police said.
A full report will appear in the Butler Eagle.
