DPS Trooper Dobbs responded to a collision that had occurred at the Hopkins County Rest Area on eastbound Interstate 30 in Cumby at 8:26 p.m. Saturday, March 16. A black Dodge Ram pickup struck two decorative boulders on the grassy shoulder and became disabled in the roadway leading to the rest area parking lot.
Dobbs spoke with HCSO Deputy Isaac Foley, who informed Dobbs that Manuel Martinez Trejo, 37, was the driver. Foley said he had located Dobbs at one of the rest area buildings, and that Martinez-Trejo had admitted to being the driver.
When Dobbs asked Martinez about the collision, Martinez stated he was driving and was upset about his truck being totalled. Martinez admitted to having eight beers that evening, and said he’d consumed the last one at either 5 p.m. or 7 p.m. at his family’s house in Clarksville before driving. Dobbs noted in arrest reports that Martinez had an obvious odor of alcohol coming from his person and red, watery eyes.
Dobbs administered standard field sobriety tests and noted several indicators of impairment. He alleged in arrest reports that he asked Martinez if he should be driving, and that Martinez said, “No, [he] shouldn’t.”
Martinez was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated and refused to provide a blood specimen. A warrant was obtained for a blood draw, and Martinez was booked in on charges of DWI, driving without a valid driver’s license and failing to maintain financial responsibility.
Two people arrested during SH19 traffic stop
Hopkins County sheriff’s deputies stopped a black GMC Yukon at 11:04 p.m. Sunday, March 17 on State Highway 19 south at Shady Lake for displaying a fictitious, obscured or altered license plate. The driver, Jeremy Lendall Smith, 29, of Tool, Texas, reportedly denied deputies’ request to search the vehicle, but admitted that marijuana was present inside it. During a search, deputies located multiple items of drug paraphernalia and a crystal-like substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine and weighed 0.654 grams. Smith was charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Passenger Pamela Gail McKinnon, 60, also of Tool was also arrested and charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was also found to have an active warrant out of the Pike County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Office for failing to appear on a controlled substance possession charge there.
Woman assaulted during argument;
sister arrested
Shannon Nicole McGill, 22, of Sulphur Springs was arrested at a Rockdale Road residence at 9:21 a.m. Monday, March 18, after an argument with her sister turned violent.
Police officers were dispatched to the residence at approximately 8:54 a.m. in reference to a physical disturbance. Dispatch advised the call was an open line, and the dispatcher could hear two females physically fighting over the phone. Officers could hear two females yelling at each other inside the apartment when they arrived, and the women were separated.
The victim advised she had gotten into an argument with her sister, and it turned physical. She said her sister hit her several times, pushed the woman down and kicked her. Officers noted there was glue along the victim’s hairline from a wig that was torn off her head during the incident. She also had several small cuts and scratches on her forehead area, as well as a small cut inside her mouth.
The victim showed security footage, that, while it did not show the physical fight, did show McGill being the primary aggressor and not disengaging from the argument.
Due to obvious signs of an assault, McGill was arrested, transported to the Hopkins County jail and booked in on a charge of assault or family violence causing bodily injury.