Howe Woman Arrested for Stealing a Police Vehicle
Report from Howe Police Department, with Mary Jane Farmer also contributing. For Scene In Town, Van Alstyne News. Names are not given until/unless a suspect is indicted.
Howe Police Chief Carl Hudman reported that\ they booked a 21-year-old Howe woman into the Grayson County Jail on a number of charges for her role in the theft of a marked Howe Police patrol vehicle Friday morning (March 4, 2022)
At about 9:20 a.m., an investigator with the Texas Office of the Attorney General called Howe police to request assistance with a woman in her care who was experiencing a metal health crisis. The Howe officer met with the investigator at the Dollar General store on L.B. Kirby Avenue in Howe. The investigator said she was transporting the woman from Howe to an area hospital for evaluation when the woman became combative and delusional.
The Howe police officer and a local constable detained the woman and sat her in the rear seat of the officer’s patrol vehicle, a 2018 Dodge Charger. The woman was able to maneuver her handcuffs to the front of her body, climb through a narrow window in the partition separating the front and rear seats of the patrol vehicle, and drive away.
The suspect drove north on U.S. Highway 75 and eventually drove onto the highway’s east service road. The vehicle became disabled when the woman ran over a number of curbs, which destroyed the Charger’s four tires, and it came to a stop on the east service road of the highway several blocks north of FM 1417.
Officers from surrounding agencies responded to the call and detained the suspect until Howe officers arrived and arrested her on charges of Escape from Custody, Evading Arrest with a Motor Vehicle, and Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle. She was booked into the Grayson County Jail. As of press time, no bond had been set for her release.
No other vehicles were damaged during the woman’s flight and she admitted to officers that she had recently used methamphetamine, Hudman said.
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