Cops: Woman, wearing Eli jersey, arrested after chase

A Mount Sinai woman, high on drugs, crashed her sport utility vehicle into a Suffolk County patrol car early Tuesday after leading officers on a chase of nearly seven miles through Medford, Gordon Heights and Coram, police said.

Police said the chase began when they tried to stop a 2006 Toyota 4Runner driven by Emily Hindman, 25, at about 1:34 a.m. on Village Drive in Medford.

Photographs taken at the end of the chase show that when Hindman was arrested she was wearing an Eli Manning Giants jersey and the 4Runner had "Lets Go Giants" painted on its exterior.

Officers who attempted to pull her over were responding to a call for the possible theft of a snowblower when they spotted the 4Runner driving erratically, a spokeswoman said.

Officers followed the vehicle from Village Drive to northbound Route 112, near Granny Road where they dropped tire-deflating "stop sticks," police said.

The driver kept going, with two flat tires, onto eastbound Route 25 and then stopping near Wilson Avenue in Coram, police said.

When an officer pulled a patrol car in front of the 4Runner near Wilson, the Toyota rammed into the passenger side of the car, a spokeswoman said.

The driver, Hindman, was alone in the 4Runner, police said. She was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue with "non life-threatening" injuries, the police spokeswoman said.

No police officers were injured in the chase.

Maps show the route allegedly driven by Hindman to be about 6.6 miles.

Police said Hindman was charged with driving with her ability impaired by drugs, possession of a controlled substance, unlawful fleeing, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

No date was set for her arraignment, police said.