A woman driving a car thought to be involved in a Kansas home invasion was arrested as she headed into Jefferson City Thursday afternoon.
The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the woman as Pearlie Bell, 24, Jefferson City. She is facing charges of resisting arrest and attempted assault on a law enforcement officer.
Sgt. Paul Reinsch, the Highway Patrol's Troop F Information officer, said investigators still were piecing together the details, but that Kansas officials asked Missouri to look for a vehicle, "and troopers located the vehicle near the Lake of the Ozarks and attempted to stop it."
A sometimes high-speed pursuit followed, with Bell's car sometimes switching sides on the four-lane U.S. 54, witnesses told the News Tribune .
"At least twice we attempted to use spikes" to flatten the tires on the fleeing car, Reinsch said.
"We eventually did get one of the front tires spiked," he added. "The pursuit ended at Highway 54 and 179," at the southwest edge of Jefferson City.
Sheriff's deputies in Miller and Cole counties and the Jefferson City police joined the patrol in the chase.
By the time the newer-model Pontiac Grand Prix was stopped, the left front tire was gone and the right front tire was flat.
No one was hurt in the chase, he said.
"I believe it was a rental," Reinsch said.
He didn't have details of the Kansas home invasion that launched the effort to stop Bell's car.