A Texas woman gave a deputy a false name and ran away twice before she was tased and arrested after a traffic stop in Umatilla on Tuesday night
Shay Thomas Bell, 33, was charged with giving a false ID to law enforcement and obstructing an officer without violence. She was a passenger in a white Chevy truck observed by a Marion County sheriff’s deputy traveling westbound on SE Highway 42 with inoperable tag lights.
The deputy conducted a traffic stop and observed Bell in the passenger seat not wearing a seatbelt. He spoke with the driver and told him the reason for the stop and then asked Bell for her identification. She said she didn’t have it on her and provided the name, “Carly Sue Yutzy,” and a birth date of Oct. 31, 1988, according to the sheriff’s office report.
Bell paused briefly while providing her date of birth and appeared to be nervous while speaking with the deputy. She said she was a licensed driver in Indiana, but a records search did not turn up a licensed driver by that name in Indiana. She then said the name on her license might be “Caron” because she was in the process of changing it and didn’t know which one it would be. A records search in Indiana found a licensed driver by that name, the report said.
Deputies conducted a further records search but couldn’t find a photograph of Bell. They then asked her to step out of the vehicle to see if she had any identification on her, and she said the passenger side door was broken and she couldn’t get out. Bell then climbed towards the driver-side door and over the driver, jumped out of the vehicle and took off on foot, according to the report.
Bell crossed over the highway and fled southbound before crawling under a truck parked in the grass just off the highway. The deputy told Bell to crawl out from under the truck or she would be tased. After Bell crawled out, she again fled southbound and climbed over a barbed-wire fence, the report said.
To keep Bell from fleeing into a large field, the deputy fired his taser and incapacitated her. She was placed under and refused to make any statements, according to the report.
Bell was taken to the Marion County Jail, where she eventually provided her real name. A records check showed she had a Texas driver’s license and had two non-extraditable warrants out of Texas and Indiana. Bell is being held on $4,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Marion County Court on Oct. 1.