High-speed chase from Sacramento In-N-Out to UC Davis parking lot ends in arrest
A woman faces a raft of felony charges after leading Sacramento County deputies on a high-speed chase Wednesday that began in Arden Arcade and ended on the grounds of UC Davis.
The ordeal began just after 6 p.m. in the parking lot of an In-N-Out on the 2000 block of Alta Arden Expressway, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies received a call that a driver had intentionally rammed an employee in the fast food restaurant’s parking lot. When deputies arrived, the driver allegedly tried to ram their patrol vehicle, but struck another car instead, then fled the lot.
The woman led pursuing deputies onto Interstate 80, weaving through evening commute traffic west toward Davis.
The fleeing driver arrived on campus just before 7 p.m., when UC Davis Police Department issued a Warn Me safety alert.
University officials later said in a statement that the woman was stopped in Parking Lot 56A near the university’s Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility building where she was taken into custody by deputies.
The 36-year-old driver was booked Wednesday into Sacramento County Main Jail where she is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail on suspicion of felony evading a peace officer, vandalism and resisting arrest, along with misdemeanor charges of hit and run and resisting a peace officer or medical technician, according to jail records.
She was expected to be arraigned Friday in Sacramento Superior Court.
This story was originally published July 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM.
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