Woman faces drug, escape charges

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Karli Cushey

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WARREN — A woman charged with a felony drug offense also could go to prison for allegedly running from a bailiff outside of Warren Municipal Court on Thursday while being taken to the Trumbull County Jail.

Karli M. Cushey, 23, of Kenilworth Avenue, will be arraigned at 1 p.m. Monday on a fifth-degree felony escape charge.

Police said Cushey was being escorted by a court bailiff to a court vehicle for transfer back to the jail at about 2:30 p.m. when she ran eastbound up the ramp of the Warren police station and collided with a Warren Water Department pickup truck parked on Pine Street.

Cushey bounced off the truck and continued running but soon tripped over a sidewalk and fell to the ground, causing a small laceration to her forehead.

She was taken back into custody by two Warren police officers who chased her on foot.

She was treated by the jail nurse for her laceration, and Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered that she be held without bond until her arraignment.

Just before to her escape, Cushey was in court on a drug charge stemming from an arrest July 11 in Oakwood Cemetery in which a Warren police officer arrested her for having a crack pipe and syringe in her bra and cocaine in the vehicle in which she was riding.

Cushey could get up to 12 months in prison each on the drug and escape charges.