photo by: Mugshot courtesy of Wyandotte County Detention Center

Danna Marie Priest is pictured with the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center.

A Kansas City, Kansas, woman was charged Thursday morning after she allegedly led law enforcement on a chase through west Lawrence before a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy stopped her with his patrol vehicle.

A deputy saw the woman speeding around 12:15 a.m Thursday in a gray Nissan Altima on U.S. Highway 59 four miles south of Lawrence, heading toward the city, said spokesperson George Diepenbrock in a release from the sheriff’s office. The deputy attempted to stop the woman, but she fled.

During the pursuit, deputies saw the woman drive in the wrong lane on Kansas Highway 10 between Bob Billings Parkway and Iowa Street and, at one point, force another driver off the highway, Diepenbrock said. The sheriff’s office is asking the driver who was forced off the road to contact it at (785) 841-0007.

The woman drove through residential streets in west Lawrence, including through a yard in the 1800 block of Sweetwater Court, Diepenbrock said.

She was not deterred when Lawrence police deployed a spike strip and popped her tires. She was only stopped when a deputy used his own vehicle to crash the woman’s car, employing a tactical vehicle intervention maneuver while she was driving east on K-10 between the Iowa Street and Haskell Avenue exits, Diepenbrock said.

A passenger in her car was taken to an area hospital for an evaluation.

The driver, Danna Marie Priest, 39, has been charged in Douglas County District Court with one felony count of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and one felony count of assault on a law enforcement officer, according to charging documents.

Priest has had several previous drug convictions in Johnson County in 2006 and Wyandotte County in 2014, according to court records.