By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News.
Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip reported on the following arrests made in the recent 10 days.
Oct. 12 — After seeing a vehicle going 88 mph in a 75-mph zone, police made a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 75 at Sanford Circle. They soon learned that there was an outstanding arrest warrant driver, a Denison man, and placed him under arrest on the warrant. Jail records were incomplete regarding his incarceration.
Oct. 13 — About 4 a.m. police made a traffic stop on State Highway 5 (Waco St.) because they saw that the vehicle’s driver wasn’t able to keep it in a single lane. The driver, a Van Alstyne woman, smelled strongly of an intoxicating beverage and had slurred speech when talking with officers. After conducting the suspect through a Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST), they determined she was drunk and placed her under arrest.
Grayson County Jail records show she was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. A magistrate set bail at $2,000, which she posted the following day for her release.
Oct. 19 — At about 7:00 p.m,. officers were dispatched to the 300 block of Normandy in regard to a verbal altercation. Upon arrival, officers spoke with a Van Alstyne woman and determined she was intoxicated and a danger to herself and others.
They jailed the woman on a charge of public intoxication, and jail records show that she was released the next day on a personal recognizance bond.
Oct. 20 — At about 11:30 p.m., police stopped a car on U.S.75 at Van Alstyne Parkway after noting that the car wasn’t maintaining a single lane. They smelled the strong odor of an intoxicating beverage emitting from the driver, an Ennis man, whose speech was also slurred and his eyes bloodshot. They put the suspect through the SFST, which determined he was intoxicated.
They jailed the suspect on a charge of Driving While Intoxicated 2nd Offense and took him to the Grayson County Jail.
Bail was set at $2,500, which the suspect paid the following day with a surety bond which has conditions set on it with which the suspect must comply.
Oct. 23 — Again, about 11:30 p.m., police made a traffic stop on U.S.75 at Van Alstyne Parkway because they saw the vehicle traveling in the left lane, designated for passing only, without having passed another vehicle. The driver, a Shrman man, smelled of marijuana, which gave the office probable cause to search his vehicle. They located the marijuana and also a firearm.
The suspect was jailed on charges of Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon and Possession of Marijuana Under 2 oz. Jail records are incomplete on this arrest.
Oct. 24 — It was defective equipment (license plate light) that caused police to stop a vehicle on U.S. 75 at Redden Road. This was about 3 a.m. The vehicle stopped and police saw that there was more than one occupant. There was enough indication that. crime either was taking place or had taken place and they asked for permission to search the vehicle.
The drive denied consent, so the officers requested a K9 (drug dog) and its handler came. And the K9 started with an open-air sniff around the vehicle and provided the police with a positive alert for narcotics.
While conducting the probable-cause search, officers located approximately 18 grams of methamphetamine and various prescription pills. No one inside the vehicle possessed a prescription for the pills.
Arrested was a woman on charges of Possession of Controlled Substance PG 1 (methamphetamine) between 4-200 grams and Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 3 (clozapine) less than 28 grams.
This suspect had no magistrate following her book-in, (magistrates usually come earlier in the morning) and thus remained incarcerated Thursday.