The last day of 2024 was not a quiet one for Moore Police. What started as a routine traffic stop on New Year’s Eve turned into a full-blown pursuit through intersections, oncoming traffic, and parking lots before officers brought it to a dramatic close near Interstate 240 and May Avenue in the Oklahoma City metro area. The suspect at the center of it all was Kayla Cervantes, a woman already wanted on multiple felony warrants who apparently thought outrunning police was a better option than pulling over.
When Moore traffic officers spotted Cervantes’s vehicle and tried to initiate a stop, she had other plans. Instead of complying, she hit the gas and took off, weaving through traffic lights, cutting into oncoming lanes, and cutting through parking lots in a move that put every driver and pedestrian in her path at serious risk. It was the kind of driving that belongs in a bad action movie, not on public streets on a holiday evening.
Officers eventually deployed a Tactical Vehicle Intervention, or TVI, which is a controlled maneuver designed to force a fleeing vehicle to stop. It worked. Cervantes’s car rolled onto its side and came to a stop, and she was taken into custody without further incident. Nobody threw a punch. Nobody fired a shot. It ended as safely as a rollover chase ending realistically can…