An alleged prostitute who jumped off the Bay Bridge to avoid arrest in August was “hella drunk” from splitting a fifth of Hennessy, according arrest affidavits reported by the Contra Costa Times.
According to the report, 25-year-old Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards was arrested in Oakland after police searched for the woman for nearly a month after they say she crashed a car she had stolen, then jumped off the Bay Bridge to icy water nearly 70 feet below, swam and hitched a ride with a truck driver.
Sanchez-Edwards was charged with three misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run driving, evading a police officer and driving without a license. The water temperature when Sanchez-Edwards allegedly dove off the bridge was likely below 55 degrees, and survival time in the water can be 30 minutes to 1 hour. Maybe less in evening wear.
According to arrest records, Sanchez-Edwards was working as a prostitute in San Francisco’s Mission District when she offered to drive two other prostitutes to Oakland in a stolen Nissan Maxima. After she crashed the car on the Bay Bridge around 2 a.m., Sanchez-Edwards evaded police by jumping off the bridge into the icy water.
A dump-truck driver reported that he picked up the woman, in a wet black dress, near the bridge’s toll plaza and gave her a ride into San Francisco.
According to SFGate, Sanchez-Edwards may have had extra incentive to run. Sanchez-Edwards was arrested in 2014 in Virginia for prostitution.
(Mugshot via California Highway Patrol)
She’s high-spirited, this one.
Does anyone have this gal’s phone number? She sounds like a helluva fun date.
You see, women of America? A lip stud is even too trashy looking on a prostitute.
It looks like a glistening whitehead pimple.
So let me get this straight.
She crashed a car, then jumped SEVENTY-FEET into 55 degree water without breaking her limbs, concussing herself unconscious, blowing out an ear drum or collapsing a lung.
She then swam against San Francisco Bay currents to shore, flagged down a truck, escaped, and took a month to find.
Forget arresting her, give her a job in the CIA. That’s Hollywood movie grade level of escape that takes a special brand of crazy.
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug.”
-Rick James
She managed to hide from the cops for hella days – that’s impressive. I agree with APaGttH, her skills could be useful!
Maybe they told her the cameras are just well hidden and you’ll be well rewarded for sticking to the script.
The only thing missing here is her stealing something of value or killing some target. Oh and where the hell was her extraction team?
She hid the body, and the missile launch codes where no one can find them – not even her handlers.
She is waiting for acknowledgement before revealing the location. It’s her insurance policy.
;-)
Well, you CAN find the codes, but I’m not sure you want to be the one to go looking in those places.
Tom Cruise “liked” this.
Rehab, rangers school, then CIA.
What kind of person smiles for a mugshot? This isn’t exactly a “Hi, Mom” moment.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/104/267482210_9ed33b6f2e.jpg
That is exactly what I was thinking.
now that’s funny!!!
Lets give him half a bottle of hen and toss him off the bay bridge. Even if he makes it to shore, what trucker would give him a lift?
Looks like a DOL picture and not a mug shot.
First hint is the blue background.
Best quote from the original article:
“The other two women found on the bridge were interviewed and released after saying they ‘didn’t know the (driver) too well’.”
What would Dirty Harry do?
Where was Jack Baruth 5 weeks ago?
Somewhere else, although I cannot prove that.
I think this is again police hassling black folks. Last time I was hella drunk I couldn’t even stand up let alone drive or dive into the Bay from the bridge and swim ashore. Police harassment all the way.
I’m not sure she’s black (maybe mixed). Her first name doesn’t contain the letter “A.” ;)
“Sanchez-Edwards” could go several ways.
Wonder if she would do a filthy Sanchez.
“Sir, we’re sending a woman, a black person and Agents Sanchez and Edwards to investigate. There’s no way we can be accused of discrimination.”
What does this have to do with rape vans with ‘Free Candy’ written on them?
More importantly, how much did it cost to fix the Maxima’s left quarter, to whom did it belong, and how did she get the key?
Here are my guesses:
1. $5000
2. John
3. Borrowed it from the nightstand.
This is not a particularly relevant tale for a car blog. But she deserves to have some kind of show on cable TV.
Whaddaya mean!? With her resume, I think she’s a lock to become the next host of Top Gear!
“Host” hell! She needs to be the next Stig!
I think they must have taken that pic from the 2015 Toughest Bitches in California book.
now that’s funny, too!!!
I don’t understand how she survived the jump and the swim ashore in frigid water, with enough alcohol in her blood to get her hella drunk.
Never underestimate the brainstem, it’s all some people get. Like blended prostitutes or Governors of Texas.
Oh, and you never made a mistake, right? This story by the cops sounds like Chris Christie explaining why all the lanes to bridge were closed.
A beautiful young woman with a drive to succeed should be blessed to succeed in life, just like your daughters.
“A beautiful young woman..”
It has to have made even a relentless SJW a little nauseated to write that.
Prostitute?
Really?
People would pay to have sex with her?
Now, that is the real story ;)
Man, if you could see some of the hookers I see walking the streets every so often, you would want to marry that girl in the mugshot.
+1 kvn. Canadian street whores must be awesome Lou. This woman is the Kate Upton of American crack zombie streetwalkers.
thelaine – small town crack whores must be prettier than big town crack whores.
Reminds me of the time I was driving down to the river to let my dogs and boys have a swim. I was in a Safari van. My 6 year old says, ” hey dad, that woman over there knows you, she is waving at us.” I look over and a whore is trying hard to look sexy. She must not of spotted the kids or didn’t care.
I just said, “must be a case of mistaken identity.”
They bought it (thankfully) since I wasn’t quite prepared to explain that to a 6 and 8 year old.
Tangentially-related like this story, I sold an ’09 Jetta to a stripper who traded in a ’98 Altima that her Hooters waitress sister handed down to her and then buy-here-pay-here’d that Altima to a Backpage prostitute (no, seriously, “someone referred me to you but I can’t tell you who that someone is because he said you know him and his wife”) who ended up totalling it after making three out of 12 payments. I made more money from the Geico total loss check than she ever paid.
If you remain the true owner of a car someone bought off of you, aren’t they just renting?
I thought that BHPH was just a loan, eventually the note is paid. Just the same as traditional car loan where a bank holds the title until it is paid off. I find the insurance part interesting, does BHPH roll insurance into the payment?
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Once the contract is done, and the BHPH victim/renter has paid up to 8X the car’s value, the BHPH store then signs over the title. Another dirty part is the victim/renter has paid for all the repairs, maintenance along the way.
I’ll more thoroughly explain this instance.
DenverMike is correct on how most BHPHs are set up, i.e. those lots that exclusively do BHPH. In my case, this was done because someone had $1100 down on a $2495 car I took in trade ACV (Actual Cash Value) for $800, so anything additional was profit. I sold it to her for $2495 +TTL, weekly payments of $75 (her terms) at 0% interest. Very simple terms; I just wanted her to pay off the car.
She made one payment of $75, a second of $50 with a veiled illusion to offer her services (she’d have to pay me, to be frank), and nothing ever again. She carried full coverage insurance on the vehicle as I required and when she totalled it, Geico paid out to me the value of the car minus her $1000 deductible, which ended up to be around $800 to my pocket.
Did I come out okay? I suppose so. But it was annoying dealing with her and that I ended up with about $2000 from a $3100 contract keeping in mind the cost of the car, recon, taxes, and the license plate, it wasn’t worth it.
TL;DR – Don’t do BHPH.
Sorry, Guys….
What in the world does a prostitute jumping off a bridge have to do with the truth about cars?
Now, maybe (I say, maybe) if we knew what the car was, and that it was so terrible she had to jump to escape its repair bills, then there might possibly be a connection (^_^)…
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probably nothing, but this is the most amazing thing TTAC has run all summer!!! And it’s generated by far the highest number of funny comments of anything TTAC has ever run!
+1 this article should not have been posted
This girl makes the film Nikita seem boring!!!!
“Hella drunk”? Are we in Arcadia Bay? She doesn’t look like Chloe. Where’s her blue hair? Can Max use her time powers to rewind this disaster?
So that’s how she got the keys to the stolen car, she did the abruptly take the thing then rewind like it never happened trick.
Exactly! And thank you for knowing about “Life Is Strange”!
The 10% of my personality (that’s not an introverted scared-y cat) would like to have a drink with this woman…
Wow. Talk about your “Kierkegaardian ‘Leap of Faith.’ ”
After jumping off a 15-foot diving platform once, I walked to the edge of the 10-meter platform (that’s 33 feet for you Canadians) looked down, and then climbed back down.
IIRC in Navy Boot Camp they make you jump from a 20-foot platform.
jm
I could clean her up real nice. She’s got better than average features. Probably a great body too. Most of Hollywood’s darlings, you wouldn’t want to see their mugshot or before being all done up.
But they had to be laughing with her in the booking room though. That’s how come the big smile.
Being seriously drunk mitigates physical impact damage .
Has no one here ever noticed how many drunks walk away from mind bending collisions ? .
When I was about 15 my Russian GF’s mom (quite a looker BTW) was walking plastered and got hit by a car going 35 MPH , flew 75′ and landed on a curbstone ~ one of those 1920’s 12″ high ones .
She broke her hip , the Cops were amazed she wasn’t killed so I’m sure this young lady (?) simply lucked out and hit the water straight on , avoiding the broken bones , burst ear drums and so on .
Indeed , hookers don’t usually look like they do on T.V. / Movies ~ this one isn’t ugly atall .
-Nate
You are basically right, but, I think that the better way to conceptualize it is, sober alert people see the disaster coming and they brace themselves, and so the impact force has rigid fulcrums to leverage on.
So it is not unusual to see cases where the innocent victim driving legally in their own lane tensed and has huge whole-body trauma, whereas the drunk who crossed the line thought he was already falling into bed, and so he is fine.
I handled more than one case that involved the strengths of biologic materials versus rapid deceleration.
I of course became and still am a fan of summary roadside execution of drunk drivers whose narcissism kills children and other innocents.
Look–nobody runs through the DMV into North Korea yelling in Korean, “Kim Jong Un is a faggot,” so, capital punishment is in some cases a deterrent.
JM
John ;
Agreed drunk drivers who kill need to be treated with firmly .
However , on the roadside in the carnage you cannot discern of it was in fact a drunken episode or a diabetic distress problem , both appear the same apart from the stench of alcohol….
I do hate drunks more than you can possibly imagine but snap judgements can be disastrous .
-Nate
Hella makes some fine replacement headlights, but how did they become synonymous with a drunk level?
That’s not cocaine high…it’s total methamphetamine high. She’s Wonder Ho!
Talk about Spanish Fly!
When they search exhaustively for a fugitive and finally arrest her/him, they alway skip the part of how they screwed up and were caught. They want it to look like it was excellent crime solving or tracking, when the perp simply turns her/himself in to authorities.
“Pretty Woman 2: Erlynn takes Oakland”
LOL…Sweet!