Samantha Lynn Baxter

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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI - A woman with a long rap sheet is accused of driving her car through the glass entrance of a liquor store, seriously injuring a customer inside.

Samantha Lynn Baxter, 38, of Holland was released from prison less than a month before the incident in Muskegon Heights, court records show. She has multiple drug-related and other convictions.

Baxter is accused of backing her car at fairly high speed into the entrance of Blue Bird Liquor Store, 3408 Hoyt St., on Oct. 30. Store surveillance video shows a vehicle crashing all the way into the store with a man running in an attempt to avoid getting hit.

He was struck by the vehicle and suffered serious injuries to his lower extremities, said Muskegon Heights Police Chief Joseph E. Thomas Jr.

Baxter has been charged as a four-time habitual offender with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated by drugs causing serious injury. She's being held in the Muskegon County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Thomas said she claimed she was trying to stop when she accidentally stepped on the accelerator.

Witnesses said that prior to crashing into the store, the vehicle was driving back and forth erratically in the parking lot, Thomas said. Surveillance video shows what appears to be a store employee and the customer who was injured watching out the front door prior to the crash.

After the crash, the female driver can be seen on the video getting out of the vehicle and walking about the store.

Outside surveillance video shows the car driving about the parking lot and two people, including the customer who was struck, attempting to approach it. The customer then is shown walking toward the entrance, and then looking back and starting to run as the car backs toward him.

Baxter was released from prison on Oct. 3, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections web site. She was serving time for tampering with an electronic monitoring device, two counts of resisting and obstructing a police officer, larceny, possession of cocaine and escape while awaiting trial.

She has prior convictions for unlawful use of a motor vehicle, possession of a controlled substance, prostitution and tampering with an electronic monitoring device, records show. Her offenses date back to 2004.