A Bradford woman was incarcerated after police said she tried to hit three people with her car Friday because she was angry at one of them.
Angie L. McCracken, 39, of 26 ½ Oxford St., was arraigned Friday evening before District Judge William Todd on 16 charges and committed to McKean County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
She’s charged with three counts each of aggravated assault under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, all first-degree felonies; aggravated assault-attempt to cause bodily injury with a deadly weapon, all second-degree felonies; simple assault and recklessly endangering another person, all second-degree misdemeanors; and one count each of terroristic threats, a first-degree misdemeanor; disorderly conduct, a third-degree misdemeanor; driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, a misdemeanor; and reckless driving, a summary charge.
According to the criminal complaint, McCracken intentionally drove a gray 2007 Chevrolet Impala toward William Doran, Alexandra Lazor and a 6-month-old baby, “trying to strike down and cause serious bodily harm (to) the 3 victims whom were walking on the sidewalk.”
At 11:27 a.m., Bradford City Police were dispatched to the area of Barbour and South Center streets to look for an erratic driver who was traveling west toward Main Street.
An officer in a patrol vehicle spotted the car, pulled out behind it, confirmed it was the correct car and pulled the car over on Main Street under the U.S. Route 219 overpass.
The car’s operator — McCracken — “was visibly upset as I approached the vehicle,” the officer reported in the criminal complaint. “She was screaming and yelling and flailing her arms around.”
The officer asked her to calm down and get out of the car; she got out but continued to appear upset, court records stated. She allegedly told the officer “she was very mad at William Doran and that he is lucky she didn’t kill him by hitting him.”
McCracken accused Doran of committing a burglary at her home and told the officer she would get even with Doran — even if she went to jail for it, court records indicated.
Seeing McCracken’s condition, the officer believed that she was under the influence of drugs or narcotics and was “highly impaired,” court records stated: when she took her sunglasses off, she could not handle the sunshine, she had balance issues, and she was shaking and acting erratically.
After interviewing several people, police determined that McCracken intentionally drove her car off South Center Street into a yard and onto the sidewalk trying to hit the three alleged victims, missing them by about two feet.
“Once she missed them McCracken jumped out screaming at them and threatened to kill Doran for allegedly stealing (from) her,” the complaint stated. She left abruptly when she heard the police were called.
McCracken was allegedly unable to pass any of the three field sobriety tests an officer performed on her, so she was taken to Bradford Regional Medical Center for a blood draw. There, she told an officer that she should have killed Doran and said she would at minimum find him and beat him up.
“McCracken then said that she truly just wanted to scare the hell out of him but when she saw him running from the vehicle her anger snapped and she accelerated because it made her more mad he was running away,” the complaint stated.
The criminal complaint did not indicate if Doran was being investigated for potential burglary allegations.
The officer noted in the complaint that McCracken did not seem remorseful for her actions against Lazor and the baby.
Police contacted the McKean County SPCA to take in McCracken’s dog, and Donovan’s Towing impounded her car because it was allegedly used as a weapon.
McCracken is scheduled to appear in Central Court on Thursday.
