MONROE — A woman wanted for a string of car robberies hit multiple police cars in Waterbury before crashing into a pole at Route 111 in Monroe Sunday morning, closing the road, police said.
Waterbury Police said they received information around 8:45 a.m. Sunday that a vehicle and a female suspect wanted in connection with “recent criminal activity” were in the area of Rutledge Street in Waterbury.
When police approached the vehicle — a white Hummer with a woman identified as Hannah Casperson in the driver’s seat — Casperson accelerated and collided with the police cruiser before fleeing the area, police said.
She then struck another police cruiser at Brass Mill Drive and East Main Street before entering Interstate 84, traveling west, police said.
Casperson lost control of her vehicle in Monroe and struck a telephone pole near the Monroe Turnpike and Wheeler Road just before 10 a.m., causing a section of the road to be closed so police could investigate, police said. It was expected to reopen around 3 p.m.
Waterbury police took Casperson into custody. She is currently being treated for non-life-threatening injuries in St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, according to police.
Police said Casperson, of Brookfield, faces additional pending charges as well as multiple outstanding warrants.
On Friday, Wolcott Police said Casperson is wanted in connection with dozens of thefts from cars that occurred in an elderly living complex on Wolfs Hill Road in Wolcott overnight Thursday. Thefts from vehicles were also reported on Munson and Brooks Hill roads area.
More than 40 vehicles were entered through unlocked doors or smashed windows, with numerous items taken, police said.
Wolcott Police said Waterbury Police notified the department around 11:30 a.m. on Friday that the white Hummer police said was connected to the car breaks had been seen heading into Wolcott. Officers spotted the car in a grocery store parking lot, but the driver, later identified as Casperson, saw them and fled south.
Officers arrested a second suspect in the thefts in the grocery store. Thomas Crawford, 32 of Naugatuck, is charged with 41 counts each of third-degree burglary, sixth-degree larceny, conspiracy to comitt both and second-degree criminal mischief.
Crawford is being held on a $75,000 bond, Wolcott police said.
