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SANTA ANA (CNS) - A 24-year-old woman pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to time served behind bars for a hit-and-run collision that capped off a police pursuit in Orange.
Deyanira Ignacia Carrasco pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon on a police officer, failing to stop at a hit-and-run with injury, reckless driving during a police chase, driving against traffic in a police pursuit and buying or receiving a stolen vehicle, all felonies. She also admitted a sentencing enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury on a victim.
Carrasco accepted a plea deal from an Orange County Superior Court judge. She was sentenced to six years and four months in prison, but that was suspended and she was placed on two years of formal probation and sentenced to 364 days in jail, which she had credit for awaiting trial behind bars.
A police officer got a notification from a license-plate reader of a stolen 2020 Nissan Altima in a parking lot at Chapman Avenue and Main Street at about 4:15 p.m. May 30, according to Sgt. Phil McMullin of the Orange Police Department.
The car was not occupied at the time, but the suspect got into it and when she saw the police car she "took off in a hurry and hit a parked car and collided with the police car," McMullin said.
Carrasco was driving on the wrong side of the street at times on Chapman Avenue as she fled, and the officer involved in the collision gave chase, McMullin said.
As Carrasco was attempting to negotiate a wide turn to get on the southbound Orange (57) Freeway when she lost control and T-boned a car, McMullin said. The driver sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries, the sergeant added.
Carrasco was found hiding in some bushes nearby, McMullin said.