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11-time convicted felon flees traffic stop, crashes into school bus with 41 kids, police say — then cops make explosive find

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A Florida woman who is an 11-time convicted felon fled a traffic stop Wednesday with a deputy partially inside the vehicle and crashed into a school bus carrying 41 children, police said. Officers said they discovered a pipe bomb, shotgun shells, counterfeit money, drugs, and credit cards belonging to other people in the vehicle the suspect was driving. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that deputies conducted a traffic stop on a silver Kia Forte around 4:36 p.m. 'Thanks to the quick actions of our deputies, a dangerous career criminal who was driving around with a pipe bomb in her car is now off our streets.' The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office released police bodycam footage that shows a deputy informing the driver that she was pulled over because both brake lights on her car were out. The driver, 54-year-old Tonnetta Evans, handed over an alleged driver's license and identified her name as "Kirsten," according to the police bodycam video . Police said