A Louisiana mother of three was honored Tuesday for lending police a hand – or in this case, her car – to help an officer chase down a suspected shoplifter over the weekend.

The pursuit began Saturday at a Dillards store in Slidell when Sgt. Jeff Kahrs was alerted to a shoplifting in progress, the Slidell Police Department said.

The suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Kelsey Baird, of Navarre, Florida, spotted Kahrs entering the store and discarded the items she was allegedly trying to steal, according to police.

When Kahrs tried to stop Baird from leaving the store, she ran through the parking lot and jumped into a car that was waiting outside, police said, adding that the vehicle was driven by Baird’s boyfriend, 43-year-old Eric Boudreaux, of Biloxi, Mississippi.

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