By Mary Jane Farmer, 
Van Alstyne News
Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip, the department’s Public Information Officer, reported on the following arrests the department made between April 12 and April 26. Two of those arrested have also now had an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold on them. And several were jailed after police found them driving with drugs or alcohol in their possession
April 12 — About 4 pm that Saturday, police stopped a vehicle on Kelly Lane and Henry Hynds because they determined with driver was driving with an expired registration. As they approached the vehicle, Hayslip said, they could immediately smell the odor of marijuana and conducted a probable-cause search. They found about ½ ounce of marijuana and put the driver, a Van Alstyne man, under arrest on a charge of Possession of Marijuana less than 2 ounces.
A Grayson County Jail magistrate set bail at $1,500, which the suspect paid for his release the same day.
April 12 — About 2½ hours later that day, around 6:30 pm, police again made a traffic stop, this time in the 100 block of Henry Hynds. They made the stop after seeing the vehicle turning without a turn signal, as required. This driver was from Plano and police, this time, smelled the distinct odor of an intoxicating beverage. They had the driver go through the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) which the driver did not successfully pass.
They placed the suspect under arrest on a charge of Driving While Intoxicated.
At the jail, the magistrate set bail at $3,000, but the authorities there also added an ICE Detainer and the suspect remains incarcerated.
April 13 — About 2 a.m. police made a traffic stop on US Highway 75 at Farmington Road. Hayslip said the driver was traveling at 87 mph in the 75-mph zone.
Again, as they neared the vehicle and made contact with the driver, they smelled the odor of an intoxicating beverage. They put this driver through the SFST, after which they conducted a probable-cause search and found him to be in possession of a bag of powdery substance, which field-tested positive as cocaine.
They jailed the suspect, a Sherman man on charge sof Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)and Possession of a Controlled Substance PG 1 less than 1 gram.
There was a passenger in this vehicle, a Sherman female, who was also intoxicated and in a public place. They determined that she was a danger to herself and/or others, and so they jailed her on a charge of Public Intoxication.
The driver’s bail was set at a total of $8,00 and he paid that for his release. The passenger’s bail is not known as her name didn’t come up in the Jail’s database.
April 13 — About 3 o’clock in the morning, police were sent to the area of US Hwy 75 and FM 121 in regard to a hit-and-run wreck. They soon found the vehicle that did not stop, but, when the patrol cars’ overhead lights were turned on, he did stop. The driver was a McKinney man. Following protocol, police searched the vehicle and located a “usable amount” of marijuana.
They jailed the suspect on two charges: Accident Involving Injury and Possession of Marijuana less than 2 ounces.
Bail was paid through surety bonds for his release on April 14.
April 14 — About 2:30 pm, police attempted to stop a vehicle on Martin Duke and John Douglas roads, after seeing the vehicle being driven with no front license plate. However, Hayslip reported, when police turned on their lights and sirens, the vehicle’s driver failed to pull over and tried to elude the officers. Hayslip said that after a brief pursuit, the driver stopped for them.
The driver was a Van Alstyne woman, who was arrested on a charge of Evading Arrest with a Vehicle.
She paid her bail of $10,000 for her release the next day.
April 14 — That same day, about 10 pm, police officers were sent to a reckless driver incident at a convenience store in the US Hwy 75 and FM 121 area. The reporting caller had told dispatch that the vehicle had entered the store’s parking lot and struck a pole. Police found the vehicle and spoke with the driver, a Van Alstyne man. They reported that they immediately smelled the odor of an alcoholic beverage and also saw several open containers inside the vehicle.
Officers asked the driver to perform the SFSTs and he refused. He was subsequently arrested on a charge of DWI w/Open Container.
Bail was set at. $1,500, but again officials placed an ICE detainer on this suspect and he remains incarcerated.
April 17— About 2:30 am, police stopped a vehicle on US Hwy 75 at Northridge. After seeing the vehicle was being driven with an expired registration. Again, as they spoke with the driver, a Knollwood man, they smelled the easily-recognizable odor of marijuana. They conducted a probable-cause search, and located a usable amount of marijuana, plus a clear baggie containing a powder crystalline, which field-tested to be methamphetamine, plus a firearm.
At the jail, they charged this suspect with Possession of Marijuana less than 2 ounces, Possession of a controlled Substance PG-1 less than one gram, Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon, and Possession of a Firearm by a Felon.
The presiding magistrate set his bail at a total of $15,000 and as of now, he remains in jail.
April 18 — About 8 pm, officers stopped a vehicle on US Hwy 75 around the Farmington Road area after noting it was being driven at a speed of 88 mph in the highway’s 75-mph zone. The driver was an Allen man and police determined that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest, charging him with Credit or Debit card abuse. At the jail, his bail was set at $5,000. Jail records show him simply released.
April 18 — A couple of hours later, police were dispatched to a reckless driver call. They located the driver, a The Colony woman, and, Hayslip said, “immediately smelled the odor of an intoxicating beverage.” After SFSTs were conducted and completed, they arrested the woman on a charge of Driving While Intoxicated.
She made bail of $1,500 in a surety bond and was released later the same day.
April 19 — A reporting party called police that someone had driven past her residence multiple times in a short amount of time. She also told dispatch that she believed it was her soon-to-be ex-husband. Police went to the location and soon found and stopped the described vehicle.
The vehicle was seen being driven with defective equipment, notably a brake light that wasn’t working.
The suspect went to jail on charges of Driving While License Suspended w/ Previous Conviction. The suspect was, according to jail records, able to post his set bail.
April 22 — About 2:30 pm, police made a traffic stop on US Hwy 75 about at Bear Road. They saw defective equipment on the vehicle, this time, it was a turn signal that didn’t work.
The driver, a Gordonville man, smelled of marijuana. Police got both the driver and his passenger out of the car. While outside, they saw the suspect attempting to conceal and/or destroy a methamphetamine pipe.
They jailed the suspect on a charge of Tampering With Evidence. He paid his bail set at $5,000 with a surety bond for his release on the 23rd.
April 22 — About 1 pm, police again arrested the same suspect they had jailed on April 19.
This time, it was for warrant service related to threats he had made to a family member. Van Alstyne police had taken the report, then obtained a warrant.
In the meantime, four bail bonding agency cancelled the bail they had placed on him, and Van Alstyne police added a new charge of Terroristic Threat to Family/Household. Now, his bail is set at a total of $21,000 and he remains in Grayson County Jail in lieu of bonds.
April 23 — About 3 in the afternoon, police were dispatched to the 100 block of Henry Hynds regarding a stolen vehicle. Baylor Hospital Police were tracking the vehicle which had been stolen from the hospital parking lot.
Van Alstyne police quickly located the vehicle and conducted a felony traffic stop. They jailed the suspect on a charge of Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle.
The suspect hasn’t recently made his bail of $5,000 and he remains incarcerated.