Police: San Mateo woman stole alcohol, dragged cop with her car

The officer initially approached the woman as she was loading stolen alcohol into her car outside a shopping center, according to the San Mateo Police Department.

The officer was passing by the Woodlake Shopping Center on North Delaware Street and Peninsula Avenue when he noticed a Safeway employee running from the store and gesticulating at the woman, who was transferring the pilfered alcohol from a shopping cart into her car, police said.

The officer spoke with the woman once she was in the driver’s seat of the maroon four-door Honda Accord, and she told him the receipt for the alcohol was in her trunk, according to police.

[...] rather than turn off the car, the woman reversed “at full acceleration,” dragging the officer about 35 feet before he let go and fell to the ground, sustaining minor injuries, police said in a statement.