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TROY — A Miami County judge will announce his verdict Feb. 9 in the felony trial of a Bradford woman accused of leading police on a chase in two counties before striking a state trooper's cruiser.

Mary Chaney, 38, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two felony counts of felonious assault and one felony count of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer.

She was found competent to stand trial in July following an evaluation.

Greenville police said Chaney failed to stop for an officer after she allegedly stole gas from a city gas station the morning of March 20.

The chase moved across Darke County and into Miami County on U.S. 36, Ohio 48 and Ohio 41 to Troy's west side. There, Chaney is accused of crashing into a state trooper's car carrying the trooper and a member of the patrol auxiliary.

A jury was scheduled to hear the case this week in county Common Pleas Court. The evidence was heard, instead, by Judge Robert Lindeman after Chaney waived the right to a jury trial on Monday, Jan. 26.

In a letter written to court officials in the fall, Chaney said she thought a passenger in her car had paid for the gas in Greenville. She claimed she did not intentionally hit the cruiser, saying the car went out of control after it hit stop sticks deployed by police.

She remains in the county jail.