By Mary Jane Farmer, for the Van Alstyne News.
Since September 29, Van Alstyne Police have made several arrests and investigated three car crashes. The department’s Public Information Officer, reported on the following incidents.
Sept. 29 — At about 12:51 pm, officers were sent to the area of Greywood and Williams Way in response to a call about a disturbance. They located the people reportedly involved and made an initial investigation of the incident. As a result, they jailed one of the participants, a Van Alstyne resident on
On September 29, 2025, at approximately 2151 hours, officers were dispatched to the area of Greywood and Williams Way, in regard to a disturbance. Upon arrival in the area, officer located the subjects involved in the incident. After conducting an initial investigation, they jailed the suspect, a Van Alstyne resident, on charges of Assault Causing Bodily Injury, Family Violence and Attempted Sexual Assault. There, the suspect also had a warrant applied to him charging him with Driving from a Service Road onto a Highway where it wasn’t permitted.
A magistrate set his bail at a total of $17,500, which he paid with surety bonds which carried special conditions on the two VAPD charges and $190 cash fine on the driving offense. He paid those and was released on Sept. 30.
Oct. 1 — At 2:21 p.m., officers were again sent to a disturbance, this one in the area of South Dallas and Jefferson. Their investigation identified one suspect, a Van Alstyne resident , who
involved in the incident and jailed him in Grayson County Jail on a Charge of Assault Causing Bodily Injury (FV).
The Jail’s database does not bring this suspect’s information up.
Oct. 3 — At 11:40 p.m., police made a traffic stop in the 900 block of Van Alstyne Parkway after seeing the driver fail to keep his vehicle in a single lane.
They smelled the odor of an intoxicating beverage coming from the driver, and had him go through the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. Afterward, they jailed the suspect, a McKinney man, on a charge of Driving While Intoxicated with an Open Container.
Again, the GC Jail database doesn’t bring up this man’s incarceration information details.
Oct. 4 — At 4:30 in the afternoon, police were sent to a theft-in-progress call in the area of North Preston and Blassingame. The reporting party said a lawn mower had been stolen from in front of the residence.
Officers were able to locate the suspects, a man and a woman from Pottsboro and took both of them to jail, each on a charge of Theft of Proper ty valued Between $2,500-$30K. Both were given bail of $3,500, and both posted it for their releases the next day with surety bonds.
Wrecks
No date given — Two vehicles collided on southbound U.S. Highway near Jim Jones about 1.25 miles from Van Alstyne Parkway. One vehicle slowed for heavy traffic, behind it was a second vehicle. It swerved into the right-hand lane and, because there were other vehicles there, that driver moved back into the left lane. The driver side of her vehicle struck the passenger side of the second vehicles, causing damage to both vehicles. Hayslip said there were no injuries.
No date given — A single car had a back passenger-side tire blow out while going south on U.S. 75 at CR 375. That caused the vehicle to hit the center concrete barrier. Again, no one was injured.