03/29/2024
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DewA Columbus County woman will spend up to 32 months in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a two-county high-speed car chase in August that ended along N.C. 87 in Bladen County. Speeds reached more than 100 mph during the chase.

Ivey Dew, 27, of Evergreen, plead guilty to assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, fleeing to elude arrest and driving while impaired in Bladen County Superior Court under an agreement with the state. She was sentenced to between 19 and 32 months in custody.

“I think it is critically important for the public to understand that this type of outrageous conduct simply will not be tolerated here in Bladen County,” Assistant District Attorney Quintin McGee said. “If you flee from law enforcement in a vehicle and use that vehicle as a weapon, endangering the lives of the officers and the motoring public at large, you are going to prison.”

According to authorities, the chase began in Whiteville on Aug. 2 when Columbus County Sheriff’s deputies began pursuing a vehicle that had been reported stolen.

The vehicle, driven by Dew, refused to stop for law enforcement and led authorities on a chase that reached speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour into Bladen County along N.C. 87 where Highway Patrol troopers conducted a “rolling roadblock” that boxed in Dew’s vehicle, according to a summary. Dew’s vehicle then struck the rear and side of one of the patrol cars.

Dew was apprehended and admitted to being under the influence of illegal narcotics, officials said.

The Highway Patrol said Dew’s vehicle traveled from Columbus County to U.S. 701 Business to Mercer Mill Road and turned onto NC 87 East before being stopped near Allen Priest Road.

No officers were injured during the chase.

Dew also was ordered to reimburse the Highway Patrol $2,346 for damages to the patrol vehicle.

Additional charges in Columbus County related to the stolen vehicle and chase are still pending.

A man was a passenger in the vehicle during the chase, but he was not charged, according to the Highway Patrol.

Bladen County Sheriff’s Office deputies assisted in the chase.

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