An Atlanta woman was arrested Tuesday night after running over a man’s foot in the parking lot of his wrecker service and then fleeing the scene, authorities said.
Coweta County deputies responded to Orr’s Towing in Newnan about 5:30 p.m. after getting a call about a driver damaging property with her car, sheriff’s office spokesman Col. James Yarbrough said.
The owner of the company told deputies that the driver, later identified as 25-year-old Brenna Alexis Smith, backed into a pole with her SUV, according to an incident report.
The man called 911 and then spoke to the woman, who reportedly offered him $200 if he didn’t call police. The business owner declined the offer and attempted to grab the woman’s keys so she wouldn’t get away, authorities said.
As he reached inside the SUV, Smith reportedly rolled up her window, put the vehicle in gear and ran over his foot as she drove away.
As she left the scene, Smith allegedly drove across the front lawn of the business, through a fence and off a retaining wall before pulling onto U.S. 29 and speeding away, authorities said.
“The damage to the fence was extensive, leaving it mangled in the road and driveway,” deputies wrote in the incident report.
Smith didn’t make it very far before a deputy spotted her Chevrolet Trailblazer and pulled her over in the parking lot of a U-Haul storage facility.
Inside Smith’s purse deputies reportedly found a device used to inhale nitrous oxide, commonly referred to as laughing gas. Smith admitted the device was hers, but told the deputy she hadn’t used it since the day before, according to the police report.
She was arrested and charged with one count each of aggravated assault and second-degree criminal damage to property, records show. She remains held at the Coweta County Jail without bond.
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