Latest Headlines
- Burger, Fries And Meth: Molino Man Charged With Drug Trafficking
- Rain, Rain, Won’t Go Away
- One Person Injured In Cantonment Fire
- Cantonment Man Charged With Stealing $104K While Working As Brinks Driver
- Jim Allen Elementary Names Students Of The Month
- Beulah Christmas Parade Rescheduled, Century Tree Lighting Ceremony Canceled Due To Weather
- Escambia Man Sentenced To 15 Years On Federal Drug Charges
- Century Backtracks On Community Center Rental Rate Hike
- Escambia Public Schools Hiring Additional Campus Security Officers
- ‘Don’t Try Nothin Stupid’: Report Details Failed Bank Robbery Attempt, Desperate Plea By Woman, 63
Escambia Woman Gets 15 Years For High Speed Chase With Three Kids In Her Car
August 2, 2025
An Escambia County woman has been sentenced for a high-speed chase with three children in her car.
Christina Lynn Chenault, 40, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer, three counts of child neglect, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, driving with a suspended license, and reckless driving.
On January 5, Chenault was driving with a suspended license when she struck a teenager on his bicycle. The teenager sustained non-life-threatening injuries. When officers arrived, Chenault got in her car and sped through the surrounding residential area, refusing to stop.
She then drove onto the interstate at high rates of speed, endangering other motorists. When she encountered a blockade set up by the Florida Highway Patrol while driving westbound on I-10, she performed a U-turn on the grassy median and attempted to continue on eastbound I-10. Officers successfully executed a PIT maneuver on her vehicle. After the vehicle was immobilized, officers discovered that the defendant was driving in this reckless and dangerous manner with three young children in her car. The children were unharmed.
Chenault was on probation at the time out of Okaloosa County for fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, driving with a suspended license, and driving under the influence with a minor in the vehicle. After her Escambia County conviction, she will again face the Okaloosa County charges for her latest crimes.
Comments
5 Responses to “Escambia Woman Gets 15 Years For High Speed Chase With Three Kids In Her Car”
I hope she gets the help she needs
In order to start and run car, insert valid (unsuspended) license and confirm ID of driver with facial recognition or other verifying factor.
I’m tired of reading stories where people are driving without a license or with a suspended license and getting in wrecks or risking the lives of others.
It is crimes like these that make me feel the penalties are not severe enough to deter the crimes. How many life’s were endangered, other than the three children? How much time will she actually serve? Her lack of care for others is more than obvious and prison is not the place to improve that trait.
This is a crazy person. Please don’t let those kids be her children!!!! She needs to be in Chattahoochee, locked up 24/7. God bless those terrified kids. This beast ruined a whole bunch of people’s lives!
I guess its an eye for an eye