WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - Surveillance video from Monday afternoon shows the moment police caught up with a 43-year-old Worcester woman who, investigators say, stole a car.
The woman then drove out in a busy intersection at Harding Street and Quinsigamond Avenue to make a run for it.
A pursuit quickly followed and police ultimately arrested her.
Police say it all started less than a mile away on Sterling Street around 4:30 p.m.
A woman told police she left her car running to pick up her child, and when she came out, her car was gone.
A video from a nearby business showed the dark colored car cutting through a parking lot, a move the alleged car thief made after reversing into an officer’s cruiser.
Police took the woman into custody under the I-290 bridge.
Police say the woman was also driving with a suspended license.
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