Crime & Safety

Police: Woman Urinated in Her Taxi Cab, Put 'Sticky Substance' on Seatbelts After Resigning from Company

Days later the woman in a separate incident led authorities on a more than 100 mph chase through Johnson County.


Five days before leading authorities on a high speed 30-mile chase, Nancy Kuntz, 43, of Coralville, allegedly did something else to get her in trouble with the law. 

According to an Iowa City Police criminal complaint, Kuntz had resigned from her position as a driver at 5 Star Taxi on June 11. Police say she later returned to the business, broke an office window, broke a key off in a door lock, ripped phone cords out of the wall, and ripped electrical and phone cords out of a box at the back of the business. She left her cell phone on top of the electrical box, according to the complaint.

Kuntz also allegedly vandalized the cab she drove, ripping off the front of the fare meter, putting "some sort of sticky substance on the seat belts," and "possibly urinating inside the cab," according to the complaint. The damages totaled an estimated $800. 

Kuntz was charged with third-degree criminal mischief for the events of June 11.


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