A Des Moines woman has been arrested in connection with a wreck that killed a 53-year-old man Thursday evening.
Ashley Nicole Hennings, 35, is charged with reckless driving causing death, leaving the scene of a fatality accident, eluding, driving the wrong way on a one-way street and driving on the wrong side of a two-way highway. A toxicology analysis of Hennings is pending, according to a news release from the Des Moines Police Department.
According to the release, police pulled Hennings over on Hubbell Avenue for having expired license plates. The officer learned Hennings had active warrants in Polk County for theft, marijuana possession and failure to appear in court for a drug possession charge, according to the release. After the officer asked Hennings to step out of her car, she drove away and police chased her.