More than two years after Butler police charged her with intentionally hitting — and injuring — a friend with her sport utility vehicle, Tashina C. Booher finally had her preliminary hearing Monday.

The 35-year-old Brady Township woman drove away after the alleged assault Nov. 3, 2017, police said. That same day, police obtained a felony arrest warrant for her.

But the warrant went unserved until her capture earlier this month in Cleveland, according to authorities. Butler County sheriff's deputies traveled to Ohio and returned with her Dec. 6.

She is in the Butler County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault by vehicle and causing an accident involving injury, all felonies. She also is charged with reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor.

At the hearing, District Judge William Fullerton ordered Booher to stand trial on all charges.

The alleged victim, Brandy Lane, 32, of Butler, testified the assault left her with a badly injured right leg that still has not healed.

“I almost lost my leg,” she testified. “I've had seven surgeries, and I still have pending surgeries to go. My leg still has open wounds on it.”

Lane said she was a passenger in Booher's vehicle the morning of her injury. She knew the defendant for seven or eight years at the time and described her as a friend.

But the two women got into an argument while on their way to a man's home in the 600 block of West New Castle Street the morning of the alleged assault.

Recalling “bits and pieces” of that morning more than two years ago, Lane said she remembered getting to the home. She got out of the vehicle and so did the defendant. But then Booher returned to the SUV.

“And the next thing I remember is hearing gravel spinning,” Lane told prosecutor Amanda Scarpo, a county assistant district attorney, “and being struck by the car.”

“Did Miss Booher stop the car after she hit you?” Scarpo asked.

“She backed up and briefly stopped for a minute,” Lane replied, “I couldn't really focus and whenever I looked again, she was gone.”

Former city Patrolman Kevin Novak, who now works for the Ross Township Police Department, got the call shortly before 8 a.m. for a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle.

“(Lane) had a laceration to her lower right leg,” Novak testified, “and there was also a large amount of blood on the ground.”

She was taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital, authorities said, before being transported to an unspecified Pittsburgh hospital for further treatment.

Novak said police immediately searched for Booher and her vehicle, but were unable to locate her.

On cross-examination, Booher's attorney, public defender Charles Nedz, asked Lane where she and his client were coming from that morning.

“I don't remember,” she said. “I had gotten out of jail the day before, and we were using drugs.”

She also told Nedz that she couldn't say for certain what the argument was about.

Following testimony, Nedz asked Fullerton to dismiss the aggravated assault charge.

“I don't think there's been any evidence presented that this was anything more than just an accident,” he argued.

But Scarpo, in response, noted the argument between the two women that prompted Lane to get out of the vehicle.

“I think that given the testimony,” she said, “(a) jury could certainly determine that this was an intentional act.”

Fullerton, in ruling that Booher be held for court, said he agreed with Scarpo, and also cited the defendant's decision to flee.

Police did not know where Booher had been from the time of the incident until her arrest in Ohio. Nedz declined to comment after the proceedings.

On Monday, Sheriff Mike Slupe said his deputies traveled to Cleveland to take custody of Booher on a bench warrant issued Jan. 8, 2018, for failing to appear at a parole revocation hearing in an unrelated case.