Woman pleads guilty to striking deputy with car
A 24-year-old Columbus woman who was shot in the arm by a Montgomery County Sheriff ’s deputy in February pleaded guilty Thursday to striking him with a stolen car while trying to flee a traffic stop.
Brooklynn Dantrea Frazier will be sentenced May 26 in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for felonious assault. A second felonious assault charge and a charge of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer were dismissed as part of her plea, court records show.
Deputies were called around 8 p.m. Feb. 22 to North Dixie Drive and Stop 8 Road in Harrison Twp. on a report of a stolen vehicle. When it was found, deputy Michael Profitt initiated a traffic stop. He got out of his cruiser and walked toward the car when Frazier put it in reverse and struck him before speeding off, Sheriff Rob Streck said previously.
Profitt, 25, was hit with enough force that his radio was lodged in the sedan’s windshield. He did not break any bones but suffered multiple lacerations and abrasions, the sheriff said.
Profitt shot Frazier during the incident, hitting her twice in the arm.
She was apprehended on Interstate 75 following an eight-minute pursuit with speeds at 100 mph at times.
Frazier faces a maximum sentence of 16½ years in prison and a fine up to $20,000.
She remains held in the Montgomery County Jail.