A Shreveport woman was arrested for hit and run driving and fleeing police after she was involved in a crash in Ruston last week.
Jamya L. Chism, 20, was booked November 1 after she was apprehended after a police pursuit following a hit and run crash.
When Ruston Police responded to Tech Drive and West Alabama Avenue where they learned one of the drivers was following the offender who had failed to stop at the crash. An officer spotted the suspect vehicle traveling in a high rate of speed and running a stop sign.
When an officer attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver continued through several north Ruston streets before pulling into the Quiktrip parking lot at Trenton Street and I-20. The driver would not identify herself or provide her name, telling officers “I don’t have a name.”
Chism’s driver’s license was located. She was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for hit and run, resisting an officer by failure to identify, and aggravated flight from an officer. Her bail was set at $21,500.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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