UTAH COUNTY, Utah, Aug. 23, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Deputies pursuing a reckless driver on Interstate 15 ended up listing 32 criminal charges against the 37-year-old female driver from San Diego.
The overnight pursuit ending early Thursday morning began after a sheriff’s deputy attempted a traffic stop southbound on I-15 at mile marker 260, according to Utah County Sheriff‘s Sgt. Spencer Cannon, who said the driver was “all over the road and a danger to others.”
Pursuit continued until the Utah Highway Patrol’s tire spikes stopped her at mile marker 237, he said. “She then asked ‘Did you pull me over for my flat tire?'”
She was found to be in possession of four credit cards and three benefit cards belonging to seven different people, Cannon said. According to charging documents, the pursuit was slow enough at times for officers to pull up alongside Danielle Sara Deloss, or pull in front of her.
But Deloss would then accelerate to 100 mph or more to elude officers, according to a probable cause affidavit, which noted at one point she attempted to ram a police car with three officers inside.
Upon arrest a blood test of her at the jail was positive for amphetamines, suboxone, fentanyl, and methamphetamines. A courts check revealed she has a criminal record in California, West Virginia and Nevada typically for drugs and thefts, and one domestic violence case..
“I asked Danielle while at the jail why she did not stop,” the affidavit reads. “Danielle started crying and said ‘I don’t know’ over and over.
“I asked Danielle if it was because of her warrant out of California and she stated no and that she knew she could only be picked up for it while she was in California.”
Deloss was booked into jail on suspicion of three counts of assault on a police officer, DUI, driving with an open alcohol container, evading, reckless driving, eight counts of drug possession, multiple counts of unlawful possession of financial cards and a bevy of lesser traffic offenses ranging from improper lane change, following too closely, improper turn signal, to driving on a suspended or revoked license, driving without registration, and driving with obstructed visibility with tinted windows, plus one count of speeding.
