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Worcester police arrested a woman ordering McDonald’s in a stolen truck on Tuesday morning after a two-hour chase for the vehicle.
“She was actually in the drive-thru ordering food and that’s when they got her,” said Raymond James Simoncini, owner of the truck who witnessed the arrest.
The woman was later identified as 38-year-old Johanna Gardell of Oriol Drive in Worcester. “She backed into somebody in the drive-thru to try to escape the cops,” said Simoncini. “She ended up in a flower bed.”
According to the Worcester Police Department, officers were dispatched at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday morning after Raymond James Restoration Inc. reported a stolen company vehicle. Gardell then got into the maroon pick-up truck and drove off of the 11 Lake Ave site while workers were unloading materials.