Joanna Mae Macy-Rodgers also entered a guilty plea to carjacking and false imprisonment of a hostage charges.
SAN JOSE – A 27-year-old woman on Wednesday pleaded guilty to firing a shotgun at authorities during a high-speed chase on Valentine’s Day in 2019, as well as later carjacking a UPS truck driver and taking him hostage, according to prosecutors.
“The Sheriff’s and San Jose Police Department stopped a violent couple from further mayhem,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. “My office has taken a reckless and dangerous person off the streets for a long time. None of this county’s public safety agencies will allow criminals to turn our safe streets into the Wild West.”
Morasky and Macy-Rodgers sped the wrong way on Highway 87 and made their way to Communications Hill, where they carjacked UPS driver Mitchell Ellerd, prosecutors said, adding that the pair threatened Ellerd with a shotgun and forced him to drive them away in his truck.he kept the truck’s speed to roughly 50 mph so that pursuing officers could keep pace. He also said he purposely ran over road spikes laid across the highway by authorities to disable the truck.
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