SPOKANE, Wash. — A 21-year-old Idaho woman now faces charges of vehicular assault and eluding police after Spokane investigators say she crashed into a SWAT armored vehicle Friday, injuring seven officers.
Though it's not the first time she's been accused of trying to escape and injuring an officer in the process.
Keiana Henry covered her face and shook her head during her first court appearance Monday. Commissioner Eugene Cruz listed her charges, some of which stem from last year.
"Second degree assault and attempt to elude a police vehicle," he read. "That incident would've occurred November 2, 2023."
Cruz said in that incident, Henry was pulled over and tried to drive away as an officer reached to grab her keys. A prosecutor said she ran over the officer.
"You drove with his person still within the vehicle," Commissioner Cruz detailed.
Eight months later, Henry is accused of speeding through a northwest Spokane neighborhood and slamming into a pursuing police vehicle.
"You rammed that SWAT vehicle and almost flipped it over. And of course an individual was thrown from the vehicle and seriously injured," Cruz said.
Seven officers were hurt, including one who suffered a broken vertebra and head injury.
Court records from her arrest Friday show Henry had two passengers in the car. One told investigators he saw a SWAT officer point out Henry's car and police cars began to follow them. He said Henry was spooked and drove away.
Henry also admitted to a detective, documents say, she saw the police lights.
She told the detective she and her passengers had driven to a gas station to buy fentanyl powder, which they used shortly before the crash.
Police were trying to stop Henry's car because it was believed to have been involved in a recent drive-by shooting.
"[She] indicated her concern, as it relates to this incident, is she was going to be suffering from withdrawals as she had just in the last hour leading up the vehicle collision ingested drugs," the prosecutor said. "The state's concern is Ms. Henry was concerned with her withdrawal, not the fact she'd just run into a Bearcat."
Henry also had active warrants in Idaho and Spokane County, including for not appearing in court on her other eluding charge.
Spokane Police collision investigators estimate she was driving 50 miles an hour, double the speed limit, when she hit the armored vehicle.
Henry's bond was set at $200,000 for both cases. She's due back in court July 30.
The two passengers were not booked into jail for this case.