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A Northlake man was arrested Sunday on two counts of endangering a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 30 west.
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Cody Sagnibene responded at 12:35 p.m. Sunday to the crash at mile marker 137, where he found an out-oftown trooper and occupants of a Dodge Ram and Chrysler Pacifica. Trooper Decori Birmingham happened to be traveling behind the vehicles when the crash occurred, catching it on in-car video.
After talking to both occupants, he learned that the driver of the Dodge Ram flipped off the driver of the Chrysler, when the Pacifica driver failed to let him change lanes. The driver of the Pacifica then is alleged to have then “brake checked” or stopped in front of the Dodge Ram, causing the pickup hauling a trailer with a side-by-side on it to strike the back of the Pacifica. The driver of the Pacifica, however, claimed the crash was the fault of the man in the truck.
The front end of the truck was damaged. The back windshield of the SUV shattered, and the rear access hatch was damaged, Sagnibene reported.
Both the truck and SUV were equipped with dash video cameras. Sagnibene asked for the video. The driver of the SUV kept “checking” the library of videos on his phone, with the trooper asking if he’d found the crash video yet. When he finally handed the SD card from the phone to the trooper, all video except the two made leading up to and at the time of the crash would play, Sagnibene alleged.
Trooper Birmingham said it did not appear that the driver of the pickup accelerated at all, despite the SUV driver’s claim that the truck driver was to blame. The other trooper also noted that there appeared to be no reason for the man in the Pacifica to stop or use his brakes when he did.
When the crash occurred, Sagnibene noted in arrest reports, the roads were wet because it’d been raining, which would require even longer distances for vehicles to stop.
While no one was injured in the crash, Sagnibene did take the 39-year-old Northlake man who’d been driving the Pacifica into custody at 2:50 p.m. on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge and two endangering of a child charges, for placing the 5-year-old and 8-yearolds in the back seat of his SUV in imminent bodily injury during the incident. The SUV and children were released to the man’s wife, who had been in the passenger seat. Craig Adam Brein, however, was jailed on all three charges, according. Welfare check on man alleged to have a machete results in controlled substance arrest
Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies responded at 6:29 p.m. on County Road 4767, where concern was expressed for a man who’d been staying at the location a few weeks. Rosalio Perez-Encizo was allegedly climbing trees, hiding in bushes and wielding a machete, deputies were told.
After a short search of the nearby woods, deputies located the 39-year-old Sulphur Springs man a distance into the wood line. Perez-Encizo was allegedly looking up into the sky and otherwise acting as if he was under the influence of an illegal narcotic. Unable to see if the man still had the machete in his possession deputies called out to him to come out with his hands up.
The man exited the woods with what appeared to be a piece of metal in his hands, and complied with deputies’ instructions to get on the ground, but still attempted to return to the woods, Deputies Drew Fisher and Isaac Foley noted in arrest reports.
Officers attempted to give the man verbal commands, then unsure if he had a weapon, the deputies reported deploying a taser in order to gain compliance. They got him into handcuffs, then frisked him. Deputes reported finding a bag containing a substance they believed based on training to be methamphetamine.
When deputies removed the bag and began escorting Perez-Encizo to a patrol vehicle, they noted the man to be reluctant to cooperate. He was transported to jail and placed into a cell designed to protect him and others from some injuries due to the cell’s construction. They believe he behaved violently due to “extreme intoxication on some sort of narcotic,” Foley wrote in arrest reports.
The substance from the bag field-tested positive for meth and weighed 10.038 grams, including packaging. As a result, Perez-Encizo was booked into jail for possession of a Penalty Group 1/1-B controlled substance.
Woman accused of hitting, biting and kicking husband
Deputies responded to a report of a physical disturbance on County Road 4592 at 10:45 a.m.
Upon arrival, Deputy Zack Horne reported a woman met him in the driveway. She alleged that a verbal altercation that spanned the morning became physical when she lost her temper and hit her husband. She also admitted to biting her husband on the back and kicking him in the face.
Upon contact with the male, deputies noted he had several scratch marks on his face, chest and abdomen. The woman’s spouse also reportedly had a bloody nose and large mark on his back, which Horne believed was consistent with a bite mark.
Deputies Horne and Richard Brantley arrested 36-year-old Lindsey Nicole Cheshire at 12:13 p.m. on a Class A misdemeanor family violence assault causing bodily injury charge, according to arrest reports.
Celeste man accused of assaulting girlfriend
Deputies responded at 11:44 p.m. April 19 on FM 2560 to what was reported as an assault. They observed the person identified as the suspect driving away from the area and stopped him on Wildcat Way for a defective light on the pickup he was driving. Brett Dewayne Sherman claimed he was assaulted by the other three. He had a bloody rag but no evidence of injury; he was however drenched in sweat, deputies noted in arrest reports.
Other deputies, meanwhile contacted the alleged female victim and two others at the location. Blood splatters in the kitchen and disarray in the kitchen of the FM 2560 residence, where the 31-year-old was reported to have been staying with a woman with whom he was in a dating relationship. The Celeste man was arrested at 12:17 a.m. April 20 on a Class A misdemeanor assault warrant, according to arrest reports.
Winnsboro man jailed on DWI charge
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Cody Sagnibene stopped Zachariah Ryan Hammond at 2:28 p.m. Saturday on State Highway 154 for erratically swerving lanes and crossing the no passing line.
The 26-year-old Winnsboro man appeared to the trooper to be lethargic and claimed to be texting on his phone. While talking to him, however, the highway patrol spotted a half empty tequila bottle on the floor beside Hammond’s seat.
Sagnibene alleged Hammond tested six out of six clues on intoxication tests, leaned on the truck for support, swayed while talking to the trooper. Hammond allegedly admitted to drinking two to three 12-ounce beers, using methamphetamine earlier in the day and possessing a THC pen. Hammond was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
Hammond also allegedly vomited several times before his friend showed up to get his truck, the trooper noted in arrest reports. Hammond tested 0.082 and 0.079 on breath tests and was booked into jail on a DWI with open container charge, according to arrest reports.
Traffic stop nets heroin, meth, one arrest
SSPD Officers Dustin Green and Sgt. Terry Miller responded to a report of a suspected drunk driver on Mockingbird Lane at 12:41 p.m. They located the man just off the road and contacted him.
The officers alleged Jackson Daniel Delich swayed back and forth while performing intoxication tests and was arrested for public intoxication. The 27-yearold Plano man also allegedly possessed multiple bags of luggage with him, including a baggy with suspected black tar heroin and multiple baggies containing a crystal-like substance the officers suspected was methamphetamine as well as drug paraphernalia.
The suspected heroin weighed 1.9 grams and the suspected meth weighed 0.6 gram, including packaging, resulting in two felony controlled substance charges, according to police reports.
Avinger, Texas woman jailed on controlled substance charge
HCSO Sgt. Scott Davis saw a Saturn S Series turned from Loop 301 onto State Highway 19 north at 88 miles per hour. When he caught up to the car, it was traveling 95 mph in a 65 mph speed zone. He initiated a traffic stop. It pulled over near County Road 4761 at 12:21 a.m.
When he contacted the woman driving, she claimed she did not have insurance on the car, and didn’t immediately stop because she didn’t know who he was.
Davis, in arrest reports, alleged the woman appeared to be in a heightened state of fear and paranoia. She claimed to have had negative past encounters with law enforcement, her ex-husband, a cult-like atmosphere, and said she thought she had an outstanding warrant. The woman “appeared to go through a continuous cycle of mood changes and appeared highly nervous.” She refused to let the officer search her car and asked for EMS for a panic attack she was having.
Dispatch confirmed the woman was wanted. She rolled up her window and had to be forcibly removed from the vehicle.
Davis called for EMS and canine. Deputy Justin Wilkerson and canine Axe responded; the dog alerted on the vehicle, resulting in a probable cause search of it. Methamphetamine, a homemade marijuana pipe and a glass pipe, and other drug paraphernalia were found in the car, the sheriff ’s officer alleged in arrest reports. After EMS cleared the woman medically, Davis transported Sara Marie Wharton of Avinger to jail on a possession of a controlled substance. The substance tested positive for methamphetamine and weighed 0.41 gram, according to arrest reports.