Arrests Made Before Feb. 11

Mary Jane Farmer | February 11, 2023 | Reply

By Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town. Names are not given until/unless the Grand Jury indicts these or any suspects.

Van Alstyne Police made several felony arrests this past week, mostly on February 8-10.

Feb. 8 — Van Alstyne police stopped a vehicle on U.S. Highway 75 for a driving violation. It was aA Dallas man driving and as police checked his driver’s license, they discovered two warrants, issued in Montgomery County, for his arrests. Those warrants charged him with Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle and with Possession Controlled substance. and they placed him under arrest on the two warrants. That information gave them probable cause to search/inventory the vehicle, and, PD Lt. Steven Hayslip said they found him in possession of 30 grams of methamphetamine, plus two other types of medication including Xanax, a medication legally available only by prescription.

At a point in making the arrest, the suspect resisted, adding another charge to the list. In all, Van Alstyne police jailed the suspect on charges of Manufacture/Delivery of a Controlled Substance between 4-200 grams (meth), Possess of Controlled Substance PG2, Possession of Controlled Substance PG3, Resisting Arrest Search or Transport. The two Montgomery County Warrants were also included.

A magistrate at the jail set bail on the new charges at a total of $20,000, and there not yet being bail showing on the two warrants, the suspect remains incarcerated.

Feb. 10 — A McKinney man, A Dallas woman, and one more who has not yet appeared on the Grayson County Jail book-in roster were taken to jail following a traffic stop. Hayslip said that at least two of the occupants were carrying guns. A follow-up on the guns revealed that the weapon the male suspect carried had been reported stolen. Both these two occupants were in possession of marijuana.

Police jailed them both on accounts of unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana, and added a third charge a third charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon. The male suspect’s bail was set at a total of $9,000 and the female suspect’s bail was $4,000. Those were paid for both with surety bonds and they left the Grayson County Jail the same day.

A follow-up with be posted when information comes on the third occupant/suspect in the vehicle.

Hayslip explained about the weapons charges, saying that “Under the (fairly) new Constitutional Carry law, one doesn’t have to have a permit to carry a gun on his/her person. The one thing that goes with that is — if you are in possession of narcotics or committing a crime other than a classic traffic violation, you cannot have a gun in your possession.”

Feb 8 — One other arrest, assault causing bodily injury-family violence, involved a juvenile, and so cannot be reported on, Hayslip said. It was an adult female who went to jail on that charge, according to Grayson County Jail records.

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