Woman Crashes Car, Gives Cops A Fake Name: Somerset Prosecutor

BRANCHBURG TOWNSHIP, NJ — A woman with several arrest warrants tried to escape police and was arrested after crashing a car and giving officers a false name, the Somerset County Prosecutor said Monday.

Jerrie Lee Williams, 25, of Bound Brook had arrest warrants from four law enforcement agencies, Prosecutor John P. McDonald said in a news release.

A Branchburg officer tried to stop Williams on Saturday because she was driving with an expired car registration, McDonald said. The officers spotted her on Route 202 south at 11:07 p.m.

She failed to stop when the officer activated his lights and sirens, McDonald said. Williams sped onto Holland Brook Road and the officer later saw the car crashed into a telephone pole, the news release said.

Responding officers and emergency personnel were giving her medical aid when the first officer arrived to the scene of the crash at Holland Brook Road and Old York Road.

Williams was treated at a local hospital and initially gave police a fake name, McDonald said. When she revealed her real name, officers arrested her.

Williams faces charges of eluding, hindering apprehension, and a disorderly person's offense. She also had "multiple motor vehicle summonses," McDonald said.

She had warrants from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, New Brunswick Police Department, Franklin Township Police Department, and the Manville Police Department, according to McDonald.

Williams is in custody at the Somerset County Jail.