IRONWOOD -- A 44-year-old woman who fled the Iron County Sheriff's Department led police officers from four law enforcement agencies on a half-hour long chase through Hurley, Ironwood and Ironwood Township before finally crashing her car into a snow bank on Midland Avenue Sunday afternoon.
Mary Catherine Parratta, 44, Ironwood, was arrested for motor vehicle fleeing or eluding by Gogebic County Sheriff's Department deputies at the scene, according to a GCSD report. No injuries in the incident were reported.
She was jailed at the Gogebic County Jail in Bessemer, the report added.
Charges are pending from the Ironwood Public Safety Department and the Iron County Sheriff's Department, according to law enforcement officials.
ICSD deputies were attempting to arrest Parratta inside the lobby at the Iron County Jail in Hurley at about 3 p.m. Sunday on an outstanding warrant out of Ashland County when she fled on foot to her car, according to an ICSD report. County deputies and Hurley Police Department officers followed her in a squad vehicle and were soon joined by officers from the IPSD and county deputies after Iron County radioed ahead and Parratta crossed into Ironwood from Silver Street in Hurley.
Ironwood squad cars were seen crisscrossing streets soon after the radio report was issued.