Police Hunt Teen Girls on the Lam
The two Ky. girls allegedly overpowered an officer and took off in stolen car.
July 20, 2007 — -- Kentucky police are hunting a pair of teenage girls who allegedly overpowered an officer earlier this week while being transported between detention centers, stole her car and took off.
Authorities identified the two juveniles as 17-year-old Amber Tucker and 16-year-old Brandi Murrah. A spokesman for the Kentucky State Police told ABC News that a fake illness triggered the successful escape Tuesday afternoon.
This caused the officer to stop the car, at which point the two were able to force her from the vehicle, a 2005 Crown Victoria. Police found the car abandoned with a flat tire early Wednesday morning about 10 miles from where the original incident took place.
"We subsequently located the vehicle, but we have not located the two juveniles," said Maj. Lisa Rudzinski, a state police spokesman.
In the four days since the juvenile offenders escaped, Rudzinski said authorities have responded to numerous reports of sighting, but none of them have turned out to be "credible."
"They're not considered extremely dangerous, however, they are considered dangerous because of the allegations of the initial crime," Rudzinski said.
The girls were being transferred from one juvenile detention center at the time of the escape, which occurred on the Blue Grass Parkway just west of Lexington, Ky.
John Hodgkin, a spokesman for the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, told Fox News Thursday that the girls choked the officer with her handcuffs before forcing her from the Crown Victoria.
The two girls were being held in juvenile detention on misdemeanor charges, according to the report.
Hodgkin was not in the office Friday and a call to the juvenile justice department was forwarded to the state police.
The officer was not seriously injured in the incident. If caught, the two girls will face additional charges stemming from the escape.
