One of the world’s strongest women, who once appeared on television pulling a bus filled with football players, has been arrested on charges of assault, identity theft and larceny, authorities said.
Shannon Pole-Summers, 23, originally from Easley, S.C., was arrested Thursday in Minot, where she has been living since July, said Deputy U.S. Marshal Kevin Howe.
“I got a lead from the task force in South Carolina that she might be in Minot,” Howe said. “She is wanted in Pickens County, S.C. — the Greenville area.”
Pole-Summers is listed as 5 feet 6 and 270 pounds. She appeared in 2000 on “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” pulling a school bus filled with members of her high school’s football team.
Howe said that other officers assisted in the arrest and that he came prepared.
“I might be 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, but I made sure I had my Taser ready,” he said.
A message left Friday with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office seeking details about the charges was not returned.
A woman who answered the phone Friday night at the jail in Minot said Pole-Summers was not available to talk. She did not know whether the woman had an attorney.
Deputy Scott Ticknor of the Pickens County Sheriff’s Department said Pole-Summers was wanted there for first-degree burglary, assault with intent to kill, identity theft and grand larceny.
“She’s definitely one of the strongest women in the world, no doubt,” Ticknor said. “I used to lift with her years ago.”
Howe said Pole-Summers told him she had been working in a bar in Glenburn, north of Minot. She is not expected to fight extradition to South Carolina, he said.
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