A female was arrested for giving false information after running from police on foot

| by Travis Uresk | February 16^th, 2026 |

Back on January 4^th, 2026, a broadcast on the radio stated that an individual had fled on foot from the Utah Highway Patrol West of Roosevelt, Utah. The description of the clothing the individual was wearing sweats and a red hoodie.

Dispatch advised the officers of two addresses in Roosevelt that the suspect was known to frequent. One was on North State Street.

While Officer Arnold with RPD was patrolling North State Street, he noticed a vehicle with a license plate cover, making the plate hard to read. As the officer approached to make a traffic stop, the vehicle turned into the alley at the address listed for the suspect UHP was looking for.

Officer Arnold lit up his emergency lights, and the vehicle came to a stop behind the residence. As soon as the vehicle stopped, two females got out of the front of the vehicle. The officer radioed dispatch asking for another unit. He got out of his patrol vehicle and asked the two females to return to their vehicle.

The driver asked what they were being stopped for, and the officer told her it was for the back license plate cover. He asked multiple times for the females to get back inside the vehicle, and because of the dark-tinted windows, the officer asked them to open the back doors as well.

After asking them several more times to stay near the vehicle, the back door was finally opened, and the officer was able to see a third person in the vehicle, a female wearing a red hoodie. Due to all the circumstances surrounding this stop, the fact that the two exited the vehicle so quickly, and the address of the house they stopped at. He believed this was the female UHP was looking for.

Officer Arnold told them he would need all their IDs. He recognized the front passenger and, when he asked for her name, she confirmed it was her. Sgt. Bird got the names from the other two females. The driver told him she didn't have a license, and the rear passenger told Sgt. Bird that she had a small warrant.

Officer Arnold began checking their information and found that the back passenger did have a small warrant, the driver had a denied license, and no active warrants. He then ran the license plate of their vehicle, and it came back as having a revoked registration and no insurance.

Sgt. Bird requested a tow truck to impound the vehicle, and they began an inventory of it. While filling out the citation, the license plate was coming back to a red Mustang, but the vehicle is a silver Chevy Malibu. The police asked the driver about the Mustang, and she told them her dad owned both. The officers checked the VIN, and it came back with expired/no registration, no license plate, and no insurance. Sgt. Bird removed the license plate from the Malibu and booked it into evidence.

On January 8^th, 2026, Officer Arnold spoke with the actual person the driver had used the identity of during the traffic stop on 1/4/2026, as well as another individual, regarding a citation she received that was not for her.

This person told the officer that 27-year-old Raisa Darice Garfield had used her name during a traffic stop, and the courts had told her to come in to fill out a statement saying that it was not her. Dispatch had informed Officer Arnold that Raisa had a Board of Pardons warrant the day of the traffic stop, but he was unable to determine whether it was her.

The officer asked this individual if she had her ID, and she retrieved it from her vehicle. The other female told the officer that Raisa said she would pay for the ticket, but she said that wasn't the point; she shouldn't be using their names because they might end up getting arrested.

The female returned with two forms of ID, which looked like hers. They showed the officer a text message from Raisa saying she got pulled over. Under a deleted message, they texted back, "No, you better not use her name, dammit," and Raisa replied, "It's ok, lol." "Allies." Officer Arnold took a picture of the text message and the female's ID.

Through these new discoveries, it was determined that Raisa's false statements to officers directly hindered this affiant in the lawful discharge of duties during the investigation. The courts were notified, and a warrant was written for Raisa. Before the warrant could be approved, on 2/15/2026, Officer Arnold was informed that the Uintah County Sheriff's Office had taken Raisa into custody and that she was at the Uintah Basin Medical Center in Roosevelt, Utah.

Officer Arnold arrived at the hospital and spoke with Sgt. Watkins. Raisa was advised of her rights, and she requested an attorney before questioning. Police took photos of her tattoos, and she was transported to the Uintah County Jail by Sgt. Watkins.

Raisa’s tattoos were compared to the body camera footage from January 4^th, and it was found that the tattoos on both sides of her face and on her chest matched. Officer Arnold called Sgt. Watkins and told him Raisa was indeed his suspect, and would be booking her in on his charges as well.