Bob Kasarda

PORTAGE — Police say a driver racing past a couple local schools this week gave chase through a closed construction area before being taken into custody after officers learned she does not have a license.

Tristina Hardy, 27, of Gary, is charged with felony resisting law enforcement using a vehicle and driving without a license, records show.

The Portage police officer said he was monitoring traffic around 5:41 p.m. Tuesday between Willowcreek Middle School and Aylesworth Elementary School along Central Avenue when he saw a westbound vehicle speed by.

He pursued the vehicle with an activated siren as it drove around the "road closed" construction barricades in the area of Peach Street, according to the incident report. The driver, later identified as Hardy, then allegedly pi

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