A 36-year-old Kansas City woman was charged after she allegedly dragged a Lee’s Summit police officer responding to a reported shoplifting in the Summit Woods Crossing shopping center over the weekend.
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Heather M. Burnam with one count of second-degree assault of a special victim and aggravated fleeing a stop or arrest that resulted in injury to the officer. Burnam was being held on Wednesday in the Jackson County Detention Center on a $75,000 bond.
According to court documents, a loss prevention officer at Target in the shopping center on Northwest Chipman Road called police about 3:35 p.m. Saturday to report a theft. The worker, who knew Burnam from prior incidents, told police that Burnam had exited the store with stolen merchandise, about $200 worth of clothing, and then drove to the nearby Best Buy…