GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Kimberly woman is charged with abducting her son and leading police on a high speed chase on Interstate 41 last month.
62-year-old Pamela E. Golightly-Marshall is charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety, false imprisonment, attempting to flee or elude an officer, obstructing an officer and two counts of bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, Brown County Sheriff’s deputies were contacted about performing a welfare check on a man in a vehicle against his will just after 10 p.m. on August 8. The man, who called 911, said he was being held in the vehicle by his mom, identified as Pamela Golightly-Marshall.
She was driving a minivan northbound on I-41 near County Highway U in the Town of Lawrence at that time. The vehicle was going approximately 90 miles per hour and passing Scheuring Road. The man didn’t know where his mom was taking him.
Deputies were now traveling behind the minivan trying to catch up. It was learned that Pamela, “has bipolar disorder.” Several squad cars were racing after the vehicle, which hit speeds of 105 miles an hour passing the Velp Avenue exit and about 1 mile from the Sunset Beach Road exit.
Three squad cars with their lights on were now chasing this minivan in the left hand lane as they approached the Brown Road exit doing approximately 120 miles per hour. Dispatch had to notify Oconto County officials as to the situation.
Then, Pamela began to slow down the minivan to around 80 miles an hour trying to weave in between traffic going in both lanes. Around 10:28 p.m., one of the deputies tried to get in front of the minivan near 41 and Allen Road. Pamela was not stopping and got the minivan back up near 100 miles per hour.
Deputies, according to the complaint, noticed that Pamela was driving on the median shoulder and into the grass trying to get around the squad car that was in front of her. Unable to do so, the vehicle came to a stop on the left shoulder/grass median on 41 just north of County Highway S.
The complaint states that a deputy exited their squad car and pulled their gun from the holster. A man was standing outside of his vehicle as the deputy approached.
Pamela was ordered to shut the vehicle off and exit it. She ignored 3 commands to do so, with the deputy noting that they, “could see the defendant had her hands on the steering wheel and she was staring at him with a thousand mile stare.” The deputy, with his gun drawn, had to remove Pamela’s seat belt and physically remove her from the van.
Deputies say Pamela was, “yelling stating she needed to get her son out of this country and away from the FBI as everyone is crazy. The defendant stated she knew they were behind her and trying to get her stopped….stated she wasn’t going to stop as she wanted to get out of the country.”
As Pamela was being taken to the back of a squad car, she uttered, “you know who I am, I am Pamela.” She was taken to a hospital for medical clearance. On the way there, she mumbled in the back seat about, “the Mafia being after her and trying to kill her and eat her son.”
While at the hospital, she continued to speak, “about the Mafia and it seemed that she had bizarre thinking.” Pamela was apparently able to answer basic questions, but began speaking about random topics in between the questions.
According to Pamela, she took her son, “because she was trying to keep him safe but he thinks differently.” She added, “He’s only twenty” and “doesn’t know what I know”.
Deputies interviewed her son, and he told them that he was at a friend’s house in Kaukauna when his mom showed up in her vehicle. He went outside to the vehicle, with his mom asking for a cigarette and he gave her one. Then she started asking about money and he replied that they could go to an ATM and he would get her some.
When they got to the ATM, the complaint states, that he didn’t have enough money to take any out. That’s when, he claims, his mom began to, “act weird.” She told him that, “people are out to kill both of us. She then drove onto I-41 and, “floored it.”
According to online court records, Pamela E. Golightly-Marshall appeared in Outagamie County court on June 22, 2016, on a failure to support child charge. Then on July 8, 2016, she appeared in Winnebago County court on a charge of resisting/failing to stop/fleeing. At the time of the chase and arrest, she was under conditions of both bonds.
Pamela Golightly-Marshall is due back in Brown County court on September 22 for a competency hearing. If convicted of all charges, she faces more than 28 years in prison.
