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Motorist Accused of Racing, Fighting With Police
By Staff Reports
The Tube City Almanac
August 09, 2024
Posted in: Crime and Police News
An East Hills woman faces a string of charges after McKeesport police arrested her and charged her with racing her car back and forth on Fifth Avenue and Lysle Boulevard on Wednesday night.
Jasmin Reese, 34, of Eymard Street, Pittsburgh, also is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol and assaulting the police officer who attempted to cite her. She is currently free on non-monetary bond pending a preliminary hearing Aug. 26 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi.
In a criminal complaint, police state that an officer was monitoring traffic on Lysle Boulevard near Coursin Street around 10 p.m. when a maroon SUV with a loud muffler went east on Fifth Avenue at a high rate of speed.
According to the officer, the vehicle then approached him again, this time on Lysle Boulevard, from the opposite direction, again at a high rate of speed.
The complaint states as the officer stopped the car at Coursin Street, the driver, identified by police as Reese, tossed a plastic cup out of the window.
Police said the cup smelled of an alcoholic beverage.
The complaint alleges that when the officer asked Reese to turn off the vehicle and step outside, she refused. According to the complaint, Reese is accused of then fighting with the officer, requiring him to physically restrain her until backup officers arrived.
Police said Reese was taken to UPMC McKeesport hospital for a blood test, but allege that she refused to consent and continued to fight with law enforcement personnel.
Reese is charged by McKeesport police with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, simple assault, driving under the influence of alcohol, racing on highways, obstructing administration of law, driving with a suspended license, and moving violations.
Originally published August 09, 2024.
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