Police Reports for Feb and early March

| March 11, 2022 | Reply

By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town

In the month of February, 2022, Van Alstyne Police received 1,153 Calls for Service, reported Police Lt. Steven Hayslip. Officers also completed 76 training hours and dispatchers received 42 hours of training.

Traffic accidents

March 5 Fatality — About 3 a.m., police were called to U.S. Highway 75 about a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. Hayslip said the victim, a Van Alstyne man, had gotten off the highway, onto the service road, just south of the Van Alstyne Parkway overpass. He was walking in the roadway and wearing dark clothing when an oncoming driver struck him. The victim died of his injuries. Hayslip said the driver showed no signs of intoxication and does not face charges.

February 27 — A head-on collision sent both drivers to area hospitals in serious condition. Hayslip said this happened after one car got off of U.S. 75 and drove east on County Line Road, where it collided with a vehicle on Henry Hynds Road, aka the service road. Both drivers were flown by air ambulance to be treated for their injuries. And both, Hayslip said, are still hospitalized.

One of those two drivers said, Hayslip reported, that he believed he was in pursuit by Anna police because of outstanding warrants against him. Actually, Hayslip added, Anna police were in pursuit, but of another car. The driver also stated he had been driving up to 80 mph when he thought he was being chased.

Hayslip said that the police will file a charge at large against the offending drive, and that charge would be aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Arrests

February 12 — Police were called to domestic assault in progress in a vehicle at U.S. Highway 75 and Van Alstyne Parkway. The victim, a Sherman woman, said that the suspect, also of Sherman, had left. After taking the report and beginning to search for the suspect, the victim left for her Sherman home. Once there, Hayslip said, she called and said that he was at her house and that the suspect had taken her phone while she was to call for help. Van Alstyne Police enlisted the aid of Sherman police, who went to the address and detained the suspect. Van Alstyne Police went to Sherman and made the arrest.

Jail records show the suspect is charged with assault/family violence impeding breathing and with interfering with an emergency call. Bail was set at a total of $6,500, which the suspect paid with surety bonds the following day.

February 15 — Hayslip said police were patrolling U.S. 75 when, at Farmington Road, they saw a speeding vehicle going southward. They driver, Fort Worth woman, did not stop immediately for their overhead lights and sirens, but a short while later, she did pull over. At first glance, police saw what turned out to be ½ pound of marijuana on the passenger side/front seat, and detained the driver. A probable-cause search uncovered more narcotics and a firearm as well.

The driver went to jail on charges of Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon, Possession of Marijuana between 4 ounces-5 pounds; Possession of Controlled Substance Penalty Group 2; Possession of Controlled Substance, Penalty Group 3; Possession of a Dangerous Drug; and Tampering with Physical Evidence with Intent.

Bail was set at a total of $25,000, which the suspect paid with surety bonds for her Feb. 16 release.

February 23 — Another assault inside a resident also resulted in the arrest of the suspect. Haylsip said that, in this report, the suspect, a Van Alstyne man, is accused of hitting a female resident in the head twice. She sustained visual injuries, he added.

The suspect went to jail on a charge of Assault Causing Bodily Injury/Family Violence, with bail set at a total of $3,000. The suspect paid that with a surety bond and went free later that same day.

February 23 — Someone called police to a house in the 1300 block of East Jefferson. Officers were told, upon arrival, that the suspect had assaulted his boyfriend. While the boyfriend was leaving, the suspect picked up a chair and threw it on the victim. The victim showed signs of the assault with a bloody mouth and some missing teeth.

Police arrested the suspect on charges of Assault Causing Bodily Injury/Family Violence, and also warrants in place charging him with Driving While License Invalid and Riding Not Secured by Seat Belt.

Bail on the warrant arrests were set at $443.90, which the suspect paid those fines, and of $3,000 on the assault charge. He paid that with a surety bond to which an emergency protective order attached to it. He was released on February 26, but then went back to Grayson County Jail on March 1 for violation of the protective order.

Hayslip said that all officers knew about the protective order. They spotted a vehicle being driven without a front license plate and made a traffic stop. The officer also recognized the vehicle which both the suspect and the victim occupied.

They took the suspect back to jail that night on a charge of Violation of Protective Order. The Bail of $2,500 was paid, this time with another surety bond and he went free on March 2.

Hayslip said the Protective Order is still in place against the suspect.

February 26 — Police smelled the strong odor of marijuana coming from inside a motor vehicle after stopping it on a traffic violation. They then conducted a probable-cause search and found three ounces of marijuana inside it. The suspect, a resident of Durant, Okla., was incarcerated on a charge of Possession of Marijuana between 2-4 ounces. Bail of $2,500 was set, and as of March 10, the suspect remains in Grayson County Jail.

March 2 — A McKinney man went to jail on a charge of Evading Arrest/Detention with a Vehicle with bail set at $5,000.  Hayslip said that police clocked a car going 98 mph and got behind it with their lights and sirens on to get it stopped. That was near the Farmington Road overpass. As the car kept going toward Anna, that city’s police department assisted in helping stop it. Eight and one-half miles later, the driver pulled over. He posted his bail of $5,000 later the same day.

March 3  — Police were sent to U.S. 75 about a reported reckless driver. They found the described vehicle and watched as it moved in and out of lanes, Hayslip said, and the officers made a traffic stop. The driver smelled of alcohol and spoke with slurred speech and so the officers conducted a driving test, and then jailed the Denison woman on a charge of Driving While Intoxicated. She posted bail of $1,500 in surety bonds on March 4.

March 5 — A traffic stop on U.S. 75 resulted in the arrest of a Wylie man on a charge of Possession of Marijuana between 4-25 ounces. As the officers spoke with the driver, a Wylie, Texas, man, they smelled marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. They got the driver out and conducted a probable-cause search and discovered the marijuana, plus several items of drug paraphernalia. At the jail, bail was set at $5,000, which the suspect paid with a surety bond on March 7.

 

 

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