Texas woman sentenced for ramming Lehi police cars after being caught using drugs
Aug 15, 2025, 7:00 PM
Haley Sullivan filling a syringe full of drugs before injecting herself with it. (The Lehi Police Department)
(The Lehi Police Department)
SALT LAKE CITY — A Texas woman will spend a year in the Utah County Jail for ramming two Lehi police cars while trying to flee from them earlier this year.
On March 28, a Lehi police officer responded to a welfare check at a gas station. Callers reported a woman who was slumped over in the driver’s seat of her car, according to the police affidavit.
“When an officer arrived, he saw the defendant seated in the driver’s seat of her car at a gas pump, with an improvised bowl between her legs,” charging documents stated.
According to the affidavit, 33-year-old Haley Victoria Sullivan of Austin, Texas, had a makeshift bowl made of a soda can that contained a black tar-like substance consistent with heroin. The officer reported that she was drawing the substance into a syringe.
In body camera footage obtained by KSL, Sullivan noticed the officer outside of her door and partially rolled down her window, asking the officer, “What’s up?”
The officer told Sullivan that they needed to talk and to put away the drug paraphernalia. Footage showed Sullivan staring at the officer, rolling her window up, and shifting her vehicle into drive without saying anything.
“The officer saw the defendant then inject the substance into her left arm. She ignored the officer, who was using his flashlight in an unsuccessful attempt to break the driver’s side window,” charging documents stated.
Body camera footage showed Sullivan injecting herself four times with different syringes while the officer tried to break her window.
According to the affidavit, another officer arrived with their emergency lights activated and placed their car in front of Sullivan’s in an attempt to stop her from fleeing.
“The officers gave the defendant loud commands to stop and step out of the car, but the defendant drove in reverse to collide with the first patrol car, then accelerated away,” charging documents stated.
Dash camera footage from the officers showed Sullivan driving through interconnected parking lots in an attempt to flee.
“As (Sullivan) reached the end of the parking lot, she turned around and drove directly towards my patrol vehicle,” police stated in an affidavit. “Just before striking my vehicle, (Sullivan) swerved to the right and instead struck the front of another officer’s patrol vehicle.”
According to charging documents, Sullivan also struck a parked car before crashing into a concrete planter near another business. Footage showed officers surrounding Sullivan’s car as it was disabled.
The affidavit stated that officers gave Sullivan several commands to surrender, but she stayed in the vehicle and reached into the glovebox.
Footage showed officers breaking one of Sullivan’s windows to allow a K9 to enter the car, which allowed other officers to pull her out of the car and arrest her.
“The vehicle was searched, and officers found a small plastic cylinder containing methamphetamine and a pill capsule that held heroin, as well as needles and syringes,” charging documents stated.
Sullivan would not provide officers her name, but did say she didn’t know anyone from Utah and was driving from Texas to Idaho.
According to the affidavit, Sullivan was booked into the Utah County Jail on suspicion of felony aggravated assault and failing to respond to officers’ signal to stop. She was also booked on misdemeanor charges of:
- Three charges of possession of a controlled substance schedule i/ii/analog.
- Two charges of interfering with a peace officer.
- Reckless driving.
- Driving with a measurable controlled substance.
- Failing to comply duties at vehicle accident.
- Use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
Court documents showed that Sullivan pleaded guilty to third-degree felony charges of property damage with a loss greater than $5,000 and failing to respond to officers’ signal to stop, a class-A misdemeanor of reckless endangerment, and a class-B misdemeanor of driving with a measurable controlled substance.
The rest of the charges were dismissed without prejudice.
On July 16, Sullivan was sentenced to an “indeterminate term of not to exceed five years in the Utah State Prison” for both felony charges, but the prison term was suspended. She was also ordered to be placed in the Utah County Jail for 15 months, but will only serve a year.
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