An Ormond Beach woman was arrested early Monday for fleeing and eluding a police officer. The arrest comes exactly one-week after the same woman was arrested by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies on the same charge.
In the latest arrest, Deborah Brinkman, 59, is charged with fleeing and eluding a police officer, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, driving under the influence resulting in injury, felony criminal mischief and driving under the influence.
Deputies were called to the Walmart parking lot Monday around 3:29 a.m. in response to a report of a woman driving around the parking lot. The man who was picking up trash in the lot said the woman, later identified as Brinkman, was driving around and throwing out paper towels that she had defecated on, according to deputies.
Deputies located Brinkman’s vehicle parked in between two other vehicles. Deputies turned on their emergency lights to make a traffic stop. Deputy Alfonso Dillard approached the woman’s vehicle and stood by the passenger side window while asking the woman to turn off the vehicle. As Deputy Ryan Emery approached the driver’s side, the woman began driving away and attempted to run over Deputy Dillard. At one point, Deputy Dillard was struck by his patrol car door as the woman ran her vehicle into his vehicle.
The woman then drove through the Walmart parking lot before turning on to Cypress Point Parkway and then onto Cypress Edge Parkway. Deputies were able to box the woman’s vehicle in using their patrol cars in the parking lot of the Golden Coral Restaurant. She was taken into custody after damaging three patrol cars and a semi-tractor trailer truck that had been parked in the restaurant parking lot.
Deputies said she had slurred speech and was unable to stand on her own. Several cans of alcoholic beverages were found inside her vehicle and deputies said she emitted a strong odor of alcohol.
The Ormond Beach woman was previously arrested on Monday, Nov. 26, on Palm Coast Parkway around 7:30 a.m. after she fled from a traffic stop on Faith Lane. In that incident, the woman refused to stop for deputies and at one point, as she sat at a red light on Florida Park Drive, smiled at deputies, waved and proceeded to drive off onto Palm Coast Parkway westbound. She was charged with fleeing and eluding a police officer and willful and wanton reckless driving. Bond in that incident was set at $2,750. She was released from the Flagler County Inmate Facility on Thursday, Nov. 29, after posting bond.
In the latest incident, she is being held on $23,000 bond at the inmate facility.