(Grant County, WA) Overnight, Grant County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a 20-year-old Moses Lake woman who assaulted her parents with a knife and then drove off with her infant child not secured inside the vehicle.
Deputies were called around 3 a.m. Sunday to the 3000 block of Firouzi Drive, unincorporated Moses Lake. The caller said their daughter, Kelsey Galvan, left her parents to babysit her 9-month-old son and returned from a night of partying to pick up the child.
Believing she was under the influence, her parents refused to hand over the infant. Galvan kicked and bit her mother, then armed herself with a knife and threatened to stab both of her parents. Galvan’s parents disarmed her, and Galvan threatened to kill her parents before walking away from the home while carrying her son in a car seat.
As deputies arrived, Galvan drove away in a car, failing first to secure the car seat inside the vehicle. Galvan destroyed a neighbor’s mailbox while driving away at high speed.
Once deputies learned the infant was in the car seat and was not secured inside the car, they stopped chasing Galvan as she drove south on Westshore Drive but followed at a safe distance to watch where she was driving.
Galvan soon stopped the car near Hansen Road and Westshore Drive where deputies quickly took her into custody. The infant, whose car seat was not secured with a seat belt, was unharmed.
Galvan was lodged in the Grant County Jail for investigation of two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of felony harassment – threats to kill, one count of reckless endangerment, and one count of hit-and-run with property damage.
Child Protective Services is also investigating.
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