An Arcadia woman was arrested June 12 after she led police on a 16-mile chase on Interstate 20 from Ruston to Arcadia.
Amy Lynn Lykins, 43, was first spotted in the Ruston Police Department parking lot about 3:30 a.m. RPD surveillance video showed a woman exiting a pickup truck, walking to the door of the police station. She then returned to the truck’s passenger side and attempted to open the door as if yelling at someone inside.
Lykins then got in the truck from the passenger side and the truck sped away.
A RPD officer saw the truck traveling on North Trenton Street and attempted to stop it, suspecting a domestic incident was occurring. The truck refused to stop for the officer’s lights and siren, running the red light at the intersection of the North Service Road and North Trenton Street.
The vehicle entered I-20 westbound on I-20, reaching speeds of 103 miles per hours with the officer in pursuit.
The driver forced a vehicle off the roadway in a construction zone and passed numerous vehicles on the shoulder. When the vehicle exited Interstate 20 at Arcadia, deputies of the Bienville Parish Sheriff’s Office blocked her in with their vehicles.
Lykins then got out of her vehicle but almost immediately got back in, rolled up the windows, and locked the doors. Officers made entry though a window, but Lykins continued to refuse to get out of the truck.
She was physically removed her from the truck and took her to the ground where she continued to resist. No one else was found in the vehicle but a dog, and officers presume Lykins was talking to the dog or herself in the police station parking lot.
Lykins was charged with aggravated flight from an officer, reckless operation, driving under suspension, resisting an officer, running a red light, and speeding 103 in a 70 mph zone.
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