Woman flees as cop hangs from SUV
CLOVERDALE — Accused of endangering her three children and at least one police officer as she attempted to flee authorities, a Cloverdale woman has been charged with four felonies and four misdemeanors following a Tuesday-morning incident.
According to documents filed in Putnam Circuit Court on Thursday, Allyssa A. Frame, 27, attempted to flee her home with a Cloverdale Police Officer hanging out the door of her SUV and drove at high speeds away from the scene with three unrestrained children in the back seat.
Police also alleged that both Frame and her dog repeatedly attacked the officer, with the dog biting him in the eye area.
Her husband John Frame, 54, was also arrested and charged in the domestic violence incident that initially brought police to their Stardust Hills home.
Cloverdale Deputy Marshal Levi App arrived at the home shortly before 6 a.m. after a caller, later identified as Alyssa Frame, hung up on Putnam County Dispatch, but called again to report a fight in the home.
App arrived to find signs of physical abuse on Alyssa’s face and hands — she was bruised and bleeding — so he told her to take her three children outside until he could make contact with her husband.
John Frame was slow to exit his bedroom, but did so without incident. App also found signs of physical violence on the John’s face and hands. The husband further told App that his wife had burned his arms with cigarettes, kicked him in the stomach and punched him in the face.
Meanwhile, Putnam County sheriff’s deputies Josh Boller and Matt Biggs had arrived on the scene and Boller was having no luck questioning Alyssa on her version of the morning’s events.
App left the home and approached the running Chevrolet Blazer that Alyssa and the children were sitting in to keep warm. Alyssa eventually answered some of App’s questions, saying that she and her husband had gotten into a bad physical altercation that morning, that he was beating her and she was hitting and kicking him back.
Asked about the burns on John’s arm, Alyssa reportedly grew irate and said she was the victim.
Things took a turn for the worse when App asked Alyssa to exit the vehicle so he could document her injuries.
The situation quickly escalated from Alyssa trying to shut the door to attempting to get the Blazer in gear and leave the scene, according to App’s report.
App attempted to stop Alyssa, at first simply trying to keep her from getting to the gear shift and then twice discharging his taser at Alyssa, with neither having a noticeable effect.
The officer reported that Alyssa was able to get the SUV into drive, and he jumped into the vehicle as she started to accelerate. App said as he tried to get the vehicle into park and get the keys Alyssa began to hit him.
At this time, App reported, a dog jumped into the front seat and began biting his face and hands.
As Alyssa began to slam on the accelerator, Biggs grabbed his fellow officer’s vest and pulled him from the vehicle as it narrowly avoided the four patrol vehicles now on scene.
Alyssa Frame sped away from the scene with three unrestrained children in the vehicle.
Deputies Biggs, Boller and Tanner Brown got into their vehicles to follow. Due to a blood from a dog bite on his right eye, App could not see to drive at that time.
Boller and Brown followed Frame from a distance, though without lights or sirens so as not to escalate the situation with the unrestrained children in the car.
Biggs, meanwhile, left the north entrance of the subdivision to intercept Frame if she fled north on U.S. 231.
Still following from a distance, Boller saw Frame’s Blazer travel over the railroad tracks on Burma Road and become airborne. In slamming to the ground, the vehicle apparently became disabled, so Frame pulled onto Grant Street and turned off her lights.
App, having cleared the blood from his eyes, met Boller and the other deputies at the scene, where Frame had at this point barricaded herself and the children inside the vehicle.
The officers observed that one of the kids had been thrown from the back seat into the rear hatch area when the vehicle jumped the tracks.
A rear door eventually became unlocked and Brown was able to open it. Frame then tried to hit the officers with a car seat as the dog also tried to attack them.
App was finally able to remove her from the vehicle, though the animal followed them out “like a fur missile,” in the words of Marshal Steve Hibler, and resumed its attack on App.
The animal was tased four more times in its repeated attempts to attack the officers and Frame was eventually also tased again and taken into custody.
With the mother in custody and the children waiting to be seen by Operation Life, App inventoried the vehicle, finding marijuana and multiple pieces of drug paraphernalia.
Frame reportedly continued her hostile behavior after she was taken to Putnam County Hospital, but a blood draw was eventually conducted under order of a warrant.
The Department of Child Services questioned the children and John Frame. DCS learned from one child that John had been on top of Alyssa hitting her and saying he was “going to kill her.”
Questioned about this, John reportedly said he may have used those words. He was place under arrest and booked in the Putnam County Jail 8:59 a.m.
The Putnam County Prosecutor’s Office filed a Level 6 felony charge of domestic battery in the presence of a child less than 16 years of age.
After her release from the hospital, Alyssa was also arrested and booked in the jail at 10:10 a.m.
Her charges include resisting law enforcement by means of a vehicle, battery against a public safety official, domestic battery in the presence of a child less than 16 years of age and neglect of a dependent, all Level 6 felonies.
Alyssa was additionally charged with Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement, Class A misdemeanor driving while intoxicated endangering a person, Class B misdemeanor possession of marijuana and Class C misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia.
With Alyssa and the children all released from the hospital Tuesday morning, the person with the most lingering medical issue from the incident may be App.
The dog that bit him, which remained on the loose as of Wednesday evening, had reportedly not been to the veterinarian in four years.
In light of this, Hibler said his officer is being treated with antibiotics, a tetanus shot and eye drops.
Both Alyssa and John Frame were scheduled for initial hearings before Putnam Circuit Court Judge Matt Headley on Friday.