Palo Alto police have arrested a woman who they said led officers on car chase through the foothills early Wednesday morning and, once stopped, punched an officer and hit the police dog that caught her.

Officers had initially pulled over Tyechia Denise Payton, 34, who was driving a 2013 Hyundai Sonata, on El Camino Real and Stanford Avenue, at about 1:23 a.m. according to a news release. A patrol officer ran a routine registration check on the vehicle, police said, and discovered that it was associated with an outstanding warrant for assault with a deadly weapon. The warrant was for a female, police said, and the female driver of the Sonata was the vehicle's sole occupant, police said.

The woman, a resident of Thornton, initially complied with the officer's commands but then drove away from the intersection and headed west on Stanford Avenue, toward Junipero Serra Boulevard, according to the police. She then turned west on Page Mill Road and proceeded through the Palo Alto Hills neighborhood. The pursuit ended in the 3200 block of Alexis Drive, where the road dead-ends by Foothills Park, police said.

Police said the woman then exited the car and began punching one of the officers, the news release states. Another officer then deployed a Taser at her, prompting her to run away. After a short foot pursuit, the police dog caught up to her, police said. She struck the animal, though neither the dog nor the officer whom she punched suffered any injuries, police said.

The woman, meanwhile, had minor injuries associated with the getting caught by the dog, police said. She was treated at the scene by Palo Alto Fire Department paramedics and was also taken to a hospital as per standard procedure for TASER application and canine apprehension, police said.

The woman was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for alleged felony evasion, felony assault on a police officer, felony assault on a police dog and misdemeanor resisting arrest, police said. She was also booked for two outstanding warrants out of the Fremont Police Department: the felony warrant associated with her vehicles (assault with a deadly weapon) and a misdemeanor warrant for traffic offenses, police said.

Online county jail records indicate the woman's bail was set at $97,052.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the department's 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent by text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the police's free mobile app, downloadable at bit.ly/PAPD-AppStore or bit.ly/PAPD-GooglePlay.