Complaint of public urination leads to arrest
Sulphur Springs police arrested a 32-year-old Sulphur Springs man who was found in his vehicle just before 4 a.m. Thursday.
The officer stated in his report that he was responding to a complaint about the man, who he found “sitting in the driver seat of his vehicle, asleep with the music playing very loudly.” He further reported that the keys were “in the ignition in the on position.”
Next to the man in the front seat was a can of Keystone Light beer, the arrest report read, and a case of the same beer in the back seat.
After difficulty rousing the man, according to the report, the officer had the man step out of the vehicle and question him.
Another officer arrived and reportedly informed him that the man had been “urinating on the parking lot of the apartment complex next to his vehicle.”
The man was taken into custody for public intoxication.
3 beers allegedly contribute to intoxicated driving
The Department of Public Safety received two separate reports regarding a reckless driver on westbound Interstate 30 Monday evening. A trooper spotted the white Chevrolet Avalanche and reported, “I observed the vehicle travel onto the should at least halfway before correcting course and traveling back into the outside lane.”
After making contact with the male driver, the trooper reported that the man appeared to be intoxicated, which observation resulted in a probable cause search.
“A probable cause search of the vehicle revealed three open beers, all empty,” the trooper reported.
The driver first allegedly tested at 0.277 and .0309, which the trooper stated was “not within 0.2 agreement.” A second test allegedly resulted with 0.302 and 0.290, a reportedly valid test.
The man was booked in for driving while intoxicated, first offense, with an open container and a breath alcohol content of greater than 0.15.
Traffic stop nets 1 arrested for alleged no driver’s license
A vehicle doing 67 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone was pulled over by Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies on FM 2653 south just after 8 a.m. Tuesday.
According to the official report, the driver, a 31-year-old Greenville man, volunteered that he did not have insurance on the black Saturn he was driving. The deputy reportedly requested the man’s driver’s license, which he was allegedly unable to locate in his wallet. Using the name and date of birth the man provided, the deputy reported he discovered that the man had an expired license and was ineligible to apply for another one “due to a failure to appear,” the report read.
The man was arrested for driving while license expired and failure to maintain financial responsibility and was taken to Hopkins County Jail.
Woman arrested after allegedly refusing to get out of car
Just before 8 p.m. Thursday, a 28-yearold Weatherford woman was arrested on Interstate 30 at the 122 mile marker for allegedly interfering with public duties and resisting arrest. According to the arrest report, the Sulphur Springs police officer stopped her for speeding and, when requested, allegedly denied consent to search the car.
The woman “was asked to step to the rear of the vehicle for [the] officer’s safety…,” the officer reported. Instead, she allegedly refused to get out of the Ford Transit she was driving, to which the officer reportedly replied that she was under arrest for interfering with public duties. The officer further alleged that she continued to refuse to get out of the vehicle.
The officer then stated in his report that she was physically removed from the SUV and placed in restraints.
Woman in traffic stop arrested
Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputy reported he turned on his vehicle’s lights to pull over a 36-year old Sulphur Springs woman at the corner of Longino and East Park streets for a defective, rear, center break light; however, the deputy wrote, she did not come to a stop until a full block down at Jackson Street.
When questioned about the delay, the deputy reported the woman claimed, “something was wrong with the power steering of the vehicle,” he wrote in his report.
The deputy allegedly requested consent to search the vehicle, which he reported she denied. A K-9 unit was contacted to conduct a free air sniff of the Chevrolet 1500 Silverado, which allegedly resulted in a positive alert and prompted a probable cause search of the truck.
The driver “claimed ownership of the black purse located in the vehicle. In the purse, I located a black wallet which contained a crystal-like residue in the bottom,” the deputy reported.
The residue reportedly field tested positive. The woman was taken into custody for possession of drug paraphernalia.
3 firearms allegedly found in probable cause search of vehicle
A vehicle with alleged expired registration of June 2017 was stopped by Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on Main Street in Sulphur Springs. The 33-year-old local driver was discovered to have a suspended driver’s license, according to the arrest report. Deputies also reported that she gave indication of possible drug use.
The woman “stated she possible (sic) had a couple glass pipes used for smoking methamphetamine,” the report read, after which she “handed the…deputy a bag containing two methamphetamine pipes.”
During a probable cause search, the deputy reported finding a hypodermic syringe. Also allegedly located were three firearms in the trunk, the report read—a Mossberg .22 rifle “with a homemade silencer affixed to the barrel,” a Ted Williams 20 gauge shotgun and a Remington pellet gun. The firearms were determined to not be stolen, the deputies reported.
The woman was arrested on charges of possession of prohibited weapons and possession of drug paraphernalia.
—Compiled by News-Telegram Managing Editor Jillian Smith