Police say a Baltimore woman already on probation for shoplifting turned city streets into her personal speedway last Friday, sparking a chase that ended with a wrecked cruiser and an injured officer in the hospital. The pursuit wound through Charles Village and into East Baltimore before officers boxed in the car in the 2600 block of Robb Street and took the driver into custody.
Charging documents reviewed by FOX Baltimore identify the driver as 30-year-old Bose Kazadi. The paperwork describes a black Honda Crosstour with tinted windows, no taillights and no front plate. According to those records, a detective first tried to stop the car in the 1600 block of East Lafayette Street, other units moved in, and the vehicle took off, reaching speeds investigators say hit 62 mph while blowing through stop signs and one-way streets. Multiple patrol cars and the department helicopter joined the chase, which ended in a collision at East North Avenue and Harford Road that damaged a patrol unit and sent an officer to the hospital.
Officers say they recovered suspected stolen goods
After the crash, officers searched the Honda and, according to the charging documents, found piles of brand-new clothing with anti-theft devices still attached, “a full-size 'lawn & leaf bag' to capacity,” an amount investigators estimated at more than $1,000. The same records say multiple registration tags were inside the car, including an Ohio plate numbered GUZ1185 that detectives linked to a Towson Town Center shoplifting report from Oct. 19, 2025, as noted in the documents reviewed by FOX Baltimore.
Known prior thefts and warrants
Public records in Pennsylvania show Kazadi was named in a retail-theft warrant tied to an Oct. 2, 2025 incident at a Dick's Sporting Goods in Camp Hill, where loss-prevention staff reported about $1,790 in missing Nike apparel, according to Lower Allen Township police records. Earlier arrest reports from the Charles County Sheriff's Office also list a Bose Mawute Kazadi among suspects taken into custody in a 2019 theft case, suggesting repeated encounters with law enforcement.
What comes next
Charging documents say Kazadi told officers she was on probation for shoplifting, a detail that could prompt prosecutors to seek revocation if a court finds a violation. Maryland law allows judges to revoke probation and, for repeated or non-technical violations, to impose the original sentence rather than the shorter presumptive sanctions that apply to technical violations. Courts have clarified those limits in decisions such as Conaway v. State. Any new criminal charges or probation-revocation filings will play out through the prosecutor’s office and the district court docket.
Baltimore Police say officers wrote 16 traffic citations the night of the chase and took Kazadi to the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center for processing, according to the charging documents. Court records will list the formal counts and future court dates once prosecutors file the case.
