A woman dressed in a bikini and brandishing a spear allegedly stole a pickup truck and led a deputy on a high-speed chase across South Whidbey on Jan. 30, according to court records.

The suspect, 27-year-old Jessica R. Hill, appeared in Island County Superior Court Jan. 31. The judge found probable cause existed to believe she may have committed the crimes of taking a motor vehicle without permission in the second degree, malicious mischief in the third degree and attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle.

The judge set Hill’s bail at $5,000 and ordered that she be evaluated by a mental health professional for possible commitment before being released from the jail.

On Tuesday afternoon, a deputy with the Island County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report on Driftwood Drive that a woman in a bikini was walking around, “banging” a spear on a house and screaming, according to the deputy’s report on the incident.

On the way, the deputy passed by an old white pickup traveling the opposite way and noted that it was swerving in a “serpentine fashion.” Soon afterward, a man in a Mini Cooper drove up and flagged down the deputy, telling her that the woman in the bikini had just stolen the truck, the report states.

The deputy went after the truck and found it parked in the middle of Swede Road. The deputy turned on emergency lights, but the truck proceeded onto Maxwelton Road and continued on without yielding, the report states.

The truck traveled at an excessive speed and in a reckless manner, crossing the centerline into oncoming traffic twice and going 60 mph in a 20 mph flashing school zone. The deputy used the police car’s PA system to tell the driver to pull over, to no avail.

The truck turned into the parking lot of the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, spun out and broke through a chained exit, the deputy wrote.

Island County Sheriff Rick Felici ordered the chase be terminated for safety reasons. The truck continued on to Sandy Point Drive, at which point the driver lost control and spun the truck into the ditch.

The driver, identified as Hill, was arrested and told the deputy she didn’t know who owned the truck. Hill said she had taken a “hit” of something and that she was high.

The deputy noted that Hill screamed at the top of her lungs and sang a song about police being fake while being transported to the jail.