YUCCA, AZ – A 34-year-old Oklahoma woman is in custody Wednesday, after stealing a vehicle and later crashing it on a Northern Arizona freeway.
Officials with the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said Kalisha Anne Nolen was arrested Tuesday evening on charges of theft and criminal damage.
MCSO said they received a call at 1:22 p.m. from a 48-year-old man who said he heard his vehicle start and as he looked out from his house he saw a woman drive away in his 1996 Oldsmobile.
The subject was described as a young female with short blond hair wearing a black shirt.
According to officials, the vehicle was later spotted by a DPS officer. The car had been crashed into a center median guard rail on Interstate 40 at milepost 22.
Deputies received a call several hours later reporting a possible kidnapping and were dispatched at 6 p.m. to a business located just north of Lake Havasu City.
Upon arrival, officers found that the reporting party was a young blond woman wearing a black shirt. She told officers that she had been held in the desert and pushed down, although she did not know who did it or what exactly happened.
Deputies reported that the woman was extremely evasive with details, including her name.
The car theft victim was called to the scene and confirmed that the woman was the same person he had seen steal his vehicle.
The woman was later identified as Nolen.
Officials said she came into custody without incident.
Deputies learned that Nolen’s own vehicle, a blue Dodge, had been towed earlier that morning by a DPS officer who found the car running, in the center median of the Interstate at milepost 21.
