{"id":134489,"date":"2019-07-10T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134489"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:40:18","slug":"woman-hurls-snake-at-driver-in-alleged-car-jacking-caught-on-camera-in-south-carolina-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134489","title":{"rendered":"Woman ‘hurls snake at driver’ in alleged car-jacking caught on camera in South Carolina | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman in the US has been charged with carjacking and property damage after she allegedly stole a vehicle by throwing a live snake at the driver – before crashing through barricades set up for a pole-vaulting exhibition.<\/p>\n

Hilmary Moreno-Berrios, 29, is accused of demanding the woman at the wheel of the SUV hand over her keys before launching the black reptile at her when she refused to comply.<\/p>\n

She allegedly took control of the vehicle in South Carolina with the non-poisonous critter still inside and ended up smashing into barriers set up for the third annual Liberty Bridge Jump-Off, held in the city of Greenville on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Upon disrupting the popular event, which also offers locals live music, food and drink, Moreno-Berrios suffered injuries and was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

Police released footage showing the moment the vehicle ploughed into the barriers at the site, which local media reported had caused an estimated $17,225 (\u00a313,832) in damage.<\/p>\n

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Officers have also said that the snake survived the ordeal and was released into nearby woods – and nobody at the pole-vaulting was injured.<\/p>\n

Moreno-Berrios is in custody on a $25,000 (\u00a320,075) bond as she faces charges of carjacking, malicious damage to property and five traffic violations – hit and run, failure to stop for blue lights, resisting arrest, driving on a closed street and reckless driving.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman in the US has been charged with carjacking and property damage after she allegedly stole a vehicle by throwing a live snake at the driver – before crashing through barricades set up for a pole-vaulting exhibition. Hilmary Moreno-Berrios, 29, is accused of demanding the woman at the wheel of the SUV hand over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}