Police: High-speed chase with wrong way driver ends after traffic picks up in Columbia

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A woman with two failure-to-appear warrants in Boone County was arrested Friday in Columbia after she was involved in a high-speed chase with law enforcement.

Emily Berry, 48, of Columbia, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated fleeing and misdemeanor driving while revoked, according to a Friday night social media post from the Ashland Police Department. Charges were not available on Casenet on Friday evening.

She had warrants for failing to appear in court in two cases: One where she is charged with driving while revoked and the other she was sentenced to probation for pleading guilty in 2024 to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

APD wrote in its post that an officer tried to conduct a traffic stop on Berry at 1:54 p.m. in the 600 block of East Broadway in Ashland. Berry allegedly refused to identify herself and sped off after she was told there was a warrant for her arrest, police wrote.

Berry allegedly drove north in the southbound lanes of Highway 63 at 105 miles per hour, police wrote.

“Berry attempted to evade the pursuing officer by trying to take Discovery Parkway and Grindstone Parkway in Columbia, but was traveling too fast to safely navigate the exit ramps,” the post says.

The chase was slowed down by traffic just south of the Stadium Boulevard exit and she was eventually arrested. Boone County Joint Communications sent a notification at 2:10 p.m. saying both lanes of Highway 63 were closed “due to a police incident.”