A Kansas City woman pleaded guilty to amended charges in connection with a chase with Mid-Missouri authorities in March 2021.
During a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem, Ebone Harris, 25, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and felony resisting an arrest. Prosecutors amended the charges down from felony charges of second-degree assault, stealing and resisting arrest. A misdemeanor charge of driving while revoked was dismissed.
Harris was placed on five years supervised probation and given credit for time she had served in jail. If she fails to meet conditions of her probation, she faces four years in prison.
A Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statement states officers were called to Kohl's on Stoneridge Parkway for a robbery on March 26, 2021.
Officers contacted multiple employees and witnesses who said three females, one being Harris, entered the store and began to select and conceal a large number of items in shopping carts and personal bags. When employees confronted the three, they exited the store and began to head to a vehicle.
An altercation occurred between an employee who attempted to grab a basket of items from the juvenile female of the group. Employees also tried to get Harris and the other woman to drop the remaining property, but they refused and got into the vehicle and left the area at a high rate of speed, nearly striking an employee who was standing in front of the vehicle.
The vehicle fled from officers who tried to stop it, and the chase eventually got onto U.S. 63 and went north into Boone County. Jefferson City police handed the pursuit off to the Boone County Sheriff's Department and the Missouri Highway Patrol. Spike strips were deployed, and the suspects ran over the spikes, causing their vehicle to become disabled. The three females were taken into custody and brought back to Jefferson City.
Authorities said the items found to have been taken from the store totaled $1,857.