Mom sentenced in chase where police fired at van of kids
A mother accused of child abuse and fleeing police after a chaotic 2013 traffic stop in which a New Mexico officer shot at her minivan full of children has been sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation.
A judge in the New Mexico tourist town of Taos on Monday also ordered Oriana Farrell, of Memphis, Tennessee, to serve 40 hours of community service and participate in a special mediation program.
Her lawyer and prosecutors reached a plea agreement last week in which a misdemeanor drug charge was dropped.
The 41-year-old Farrell was traveling through New Mexico when she sped away from police twice. An officer fired three shots toward Farrell’s van carrying her five children when she drove away the second time.
No one was injured.
The officer, who said he was aiming at a tire, was fired.
Associated Press
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