- A Springville woman was arrested for allegedly hitting a store employee with her car.
- Incident followed alleged theft of baseball cards from a Springville antiques store.
SPRINGVILLE — A Springville woman has been arrested after police say she hit an employee of an antiques store with her car after stealing baseball cards.
Chelsea Lee Kerr, 34, was booked into the Utah County Jail early Thursday for investigation of aggravated assault, aggravated robbery and obstruction of justice.
On Wednesday, Springville police were called to an antiques store on a report of a man being hit by a car. Kerr "had just been caught stealing from an antiques store and when the victim confronted the suspect, the suspect put her car in reverse and struck the victim," according to a police booking affidavit.
The victim, who was able to speak to officers, said he saw Kerr enter the store and had "a bad feeling" about her and "decided to watch (her) as (she) walked around," the affidavit states. When the woman allegedly tried to leave the store with "some valuable baseball cards" without paying for them, the employee attempted to confront her.
"The female walked past the victim and pulled her phone out and put it up to her ear pretending to be on a phone call," the affidavit states. The woman then got into a car with a man. As she began to drive off, the store employee used his cellphone to record her license plate.
"The car then backs up while the victim is recording and reportedly strikes him. The victim steps away from the car, and as the car begins to move forward again, the driver strikes the victim a second time, causing him to fall on the hood of the car. The victim reported being on the hood as the car drives away and as the car turns out of the parking lot and onto a road, the victim falls off the hood," police wrote in the arrest report.
Using the video recorded on the phone, detectives tracked down Kerr at an apartment in Provo.
"Chelsea Kerr said she had changed her clothing and threw away her shirt because she was nervous. When asked about the license plate on her car, Chelsea Kerr stated she removed the license plate because she was getting a new one tomorrow," according to the affidavit.
Kerr was then taken into custody because police noted that she "was willing to harm someone with her vehicle instead of being confronted for a minor retail theft."
