{"id":441779,"date":"2026-09-20T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:28:09","slug":"vanessa-ronnebaum-sentenced-after-guilty-plea-in-el-paso-officer-injury-crash-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441779\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Ronnebaum sentenced after guilty plea in El Paso officer-injury crash case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman who was accused of stealing an SUV and crashing into an El Paso police vehicle, injuring two officers, has been sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Vanessa Loreli Ronnebaum pleaded guilty Sept. 17 to evading arrest with a vehicle, two counts of aggravated assault against a public servant and theft of property valued between $2,500 and $30,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnebaum was sentenced to five years in prison for evading arrest and five years for each of the two aggravated assault charges.<\/p>\n<p>She was also sentenced to 18 months in state jail for the theft charge. Court records show she received credit for 177 days served.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnebaum was originally arrested in March after El Paso police said she stole a 2009 Chevrolet Equinox from a convenience store on North Yarbrough Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, officers later spotted the stolen SUV and attempted to stop Ronnebaum. Police said she refused to stop and eventually crashed into the driver&#8217;s side of a patrol vehicle, injuring two officers.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were taken to the hospital and later released, according to the original KFOX report.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The court record you provided does not show a final disposition for the DWI charge listed in the original March story, so I would not include a disposition for that charge unless you have another court record confirming it.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/m\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-arrest-25-year-old-accused-of-stealing-suv-injuring-two-officers-in-crash-texas-tx?scr=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police arrest 25-year-old accused of stealing SUV, injuring two officers in crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A woman who was accused of stealing an SUV and crashing into an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-441779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}