Olivia Hayes
We have an updated list of all of the charges that a 25-year-old Cartersville woman is facing after a shoplifting incident on Tuesday.
According to Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap, two deputies responded to the Ingles Supermarket on Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Cartersville at about 1:23 p.m. to a reported shoplifting in progress.
When they arrived, the suspected female shoplifter was getting into the driver’s seat of a Honda Accord in the parking lot. Ignoring the deputies trying to speak to her, the female continued to get into the car and backed up quickly, striking one deputy in the leg and missing another. She then drove forward, striking two cars to escape. One of those cars had a toddler inside with a woman loading groceries in the trunk.
As deputies pursued the Honda, the female turned the wrong way onto Felton Road, almost hit an assisting deputy head on, struck another vehicle, and continued to the Crown Inn on Tennessee Street.
Witnesses provided law enforcement with the room she ran to after leaving the car. Deputies arrested Olivia Ann Hayes with assistance from the Cartersville Police Department and the Georgia State Patrol.
Hayes is currently being held in the Bartow County Jail on three counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of hit and run, fleeing and attempting to elude officers, probation violation, shoplifting, theft by taking, driving while unlicensed, making an illegal left turn, driving on the wrong side of the road, and reckless driving.
The deputy that was struck in the leg is okay with only a complaint of injury. No other injuries were reported despite the reckless actions of Hayes.