ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — A Florissant woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a county deputy during a traffic stop was sentenced Thursday to more than two decades in prison.
The St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office announced via a press release Thursday that 29-year-old Tiffany Kanzler was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Kanzler pleaded guilty in May to second-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident and first-degree property damage.
Editorial Note: The video above is from Jan. 5, 2022.
On the morning of Jan. 5, 2022, officers stopped a GMC Denali that they said was seen casing the area around Interstate 70 and Fifth Street.
While officers were talking to the people in the car, the driver drove into a police vehicle and hit a deputy who was awaiting prisoner transport. The deputy was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, and his vitals were stable.
After hitting the deputy, the suspects drove eastbound on I-70 into St. Louis County and crashed into a Cottleville Police Department patrol car at Route 141 and Ryder Trail.
Two people, including the driver, who was identified as Kanzler, were taken into custody. While searching the car, police found a gun and 40 fentanyl pills.
The passenger in the car, then-38-year-old Aaron Walker, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and possession of a controlled substance. Walker was found guilty by a jury on Aug. 24, 2022, for unlawful use of a weapon and trafficking drugs. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.