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Woman Arrested After Car Hits Deputy At Brandon Mall

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Published: March 12, 2009

Updated: 03/12/2009 03:39 pm

Amanda Noel Colla

TAMPA - A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy was injured when she was pinned between a parked car and one driven by a woman being questioned who threw the vehicle into reverse with the deputy's arm caught in the rolled up window.

The woman then drove away, leaving Deputy Judy Whaley with an injured knee and ankle.

The incident started when Whaley and Deputy Tamela Cuscaden, on bicycle patrol at the Westfield Brandon Mall, spotted a dog locked inside a vehicle about 11 a.m.

When Amanda Colla and two children returned to the 2008 Toyota Corolla, the deputies began to talk to Colla about the dog, the sheriff's office said.

Whaley was talking to Colla through the passenger window when Colla rolled up the window, pinning Whaley's arm inside, then put the car in reverse, the sheriff's office said. Whaley was caught between the Toyota and a parked car.

Colla fled and called a relative from a Target parking lot, deputies said. The relative called deputies, who arrested Colla, releasing the children and dog to the family member.

Colla, of Brandon, was charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and criminal mischief for damage to the parked car, the sheriff's office said.

She is being held this afternoon at Orient Road Jail on $17,000 bail.

Whaley was taken to University Community Hospital.

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