SEDONA POLICE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING REPORT OCTOBER 18, 2025
Officers responded to an attempt to locate a vehicle with a stolen plate out of Coconino County that was believed to be driven by a burglary suspect. The vehicle was located near Uptown Sedona.
When officers attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver fled, and a pursuit was initiated. The pursuit was terminated due to concerns for public safety.
A short time later, a call came out for a female with bloody injuries in the area of Arroyo Pinion Drive getting into a vehicle matching the vehicle from the previous pursuit.
On arrival to the area officers located the vehicle and deployed stop sticks in order to get it to stop. The driver again fled in the vehicle with multiple flat tires and officers re-engaged in pursuit.
The pursuit continued out of city limits on W SR 89A toward Cottonwood. SPD officers requested assistance from DPS, YCSO, and Cottonwood PD for the ongoing pursuit.
The suspect continued on to the area of W SR 89A and Spring Creek Ranch Road, where the suspect drove off the roadway several hundred yards into the forest land.
The suspect vehicle ultimately crashed and became immobile. SPD, DPS, CCSO, YCSO, and CWPD officers immediately evacuated the female driver from the crashed vehicle in order to provide medical attention.
The female was ultimately transported by helicopter to Flagstaff Medical Center for her injuries.
It was later learned the vehicle the suspect drove was stolen from a location in YCSO jurisdiction. Criminal charges will be long-formed.
Editor’s Note: Police report provided to Sedona.biz by Allen Elfman, MYAZTV
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4 Comments
I saw this happen in real time. I work at the forest rd and 89-A intersection in uptown. To add to this, because it seems a lot is being withheld from this story. The stolen vehicle looked like a county work truck or company fleet vehicle. The vehicle had a gigantic metal tank in the bed of the truck, and the tank had a pressure gauge on it. The tank looked like something that could be used in breaking bad for whatever reason. (That’s how it looked, I’m not saying that’s the reason it was stolen) The woman was blonde and looked mid to late 40s early 50s. I’ve Been waiting for some kind of article to come out and I’m not surprised that the name of the suspect was withheld because I have a feeling she is employed by Arizona local government. Now this is just speculation, and I could be wrong but I think she specifically has a job within the law enforcement department / correctional facility department of Arizona. There was one person who stood out to me that was booked at Yavapai within 24hrs of this event taking place. After seeing her LinkedIn, She fit the description of the woman I saw in the stolen truck. It’s just bizzare that a juvenile correctional facility HS teacher would do something like this or be arrested for any reason if the suspect in this case wasn’t her. There is so much more to this than we know and are actually being told. Regardless of the crimes, i really hope this woman is okay and survives her injuries. she looked like she was having the ULTIMATE life crisis when I saw this happen. if it is in fact this woman, this woman has a family, and I really just feel for them more than anything.
For some reason my last comment didnt get get posted, hopefully it’s not because they are trying to keep the identity of this woman from getting out. I saw the attempted stop in uptown Sedona taking place. I work at a business at the intersection of forest Rd and 89 – A. I saw the female suspect, she had platinum blonde hair and looked in her mid to late 40s maybe early 50s. After watching this event in real time and noticing that there were no reports of this the following day. I did some research and found that out of the only females booked within the 20 hours from this event taking place, one woman fit the profile of the female suspect i saw being pursued by Sedona PF. This woman had been working as a correctional facilities HS teacher for the last 10+ years. She’s a government employee that works with law enforcement. Please understand that this is only speculation, and I could be wrong. But regardless, a woman with this exact name was booked around this time. And upon discovering her LinkedIn and Facebook, I saw that she resembled the female suspect almost exactly to the woman I saw on Saturday. Also note that the stolen vehicle (a white truck, with the number 104 written on the driver side) had a giant metal tank of some sort in the bed of the truck. The tank also had a pressure gauge on it. Im not sure if the tank itself was what was being stolen but it looked like something you would store hazardous chemicals in. Obviously because she was transferred to flagstaff medical center, she was “booked” but hasn’t been placed in jail just yet. when you do an inmate search for her at the yavapai jail she’s nowhere to be found so this makes even more sense to me that it’s indeed her. Hopefully this information isn’t hidden from the public and my comment gets posted to this article. I feel like if she wasn’t this person that I’ve speculated her to be, the suspects name would indeed be included in this article. It’s a little bizzare that her name is redacted from this. If my comment doesn’t get approved to be posted again, it’ll only confirm my suspicions more that this is being kept a secret for now. Again this is just speculation.
I feel like if this was just an ordinary female suspect, they would’ve released her name already, she’s clearly someone they want to try and hide. There is a woman booked around this time that shares the same name of an Arizona government employee who looks exactly like the blonde female suspect I saw in uptown Sedona who fled from police.
isn’t it odd that the suspects name isn’t included in this article. these are serious crimes and it seems a bit out of character for Arizona Law enforcement to just redact the identity of a caught suspect in a police report. it’s also strange that this is just coming out this many days after the crime took place. a buddy of mine who works up there in Sedona, watched the entire “stopping and fleeing” incident. he definitely got a clear look at her face. He described her as a middle aged blonde woman, in a white truck with specific number markers on the side with a steel chemical vat in the back. He got a pretty good look at her face and possibly even got a picture of her while she was stopped, although I’m not sure. He claims he figured out her identity based off of who he saw fleeing from police and who was recently booked at Yavapai the next morning of oct 19th. he’s usually never wrong about this stuff. he was also really bothered by the fact that none of this was getting reported on and he texted me this article today and was like “dude look, they are finally talking about this, giving minimal info and they are trying to hide her identity because the suspect is (‘alleged person’)” If this person is the person he claims the suspect to be……there is WAYYYYYY more to this story and it makes sense that they aren’t releasing her name. She’s definitely getting some sort of special treatment as of now. Either that or the case is so complex that they don’t want to mess up the investigation. still though….they cant release her name? they don’t even mention that they cant release her name in this article…very odd.