A 76-year-old, intoxicated woman driving an electric car led police on a high-speed chase on Whidbey Island that ended with her fleeing on foot down a steep embankment, hiding in the woods and then refusing to cooperate when officers tried to coax her out from under a bush on Nov. 24, according to court documents.

In the end, paramedics had to strap the uncooperative suspect to a backboard and carry her out.

Jane L. Franklin, a Port Townsend resident, appeared in Island County Superior Court Tuesday. Judge Christon Skinner found probable cause existed to believe she may have committed the crimes of attempting to elude, resisting arrest and driving under the influence.

The incident began in the afternoon when a caller at the Greenbank Post Office reported that a woman was “plastered,” an

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