Man accused of evading arrest or detention
While investigating reports of gunshots in the area of FM 275 south in Cumby, Hopkins County Sheriff ’s Deputy Drew Fisher observed a Dodge Charger driven recklessly past him at 2:39 a.m. May 21.
The caller showed the deputy a video of the suspect vehicle, what appeared to be a gray Dodge Charger. Unable to recall the color of the car that had passed him, the deputy went back to his vehicle to try to find it.
With dust still in the air, he saw a charger traveling in the Cumby area south service road. As he attempted to catch up to the car, he noticed a Charger turned east onto the service road. The Charger passed a truck and turned onto FM 275 south as the deputy reached the south service road. As the deputy turned onto FM 275 south, he noted the Charger to be traveling at a high rate of speed. He hit the lights and siren on his patrol vehicle. Instead of stopping, the car continued south on FM 275 then east onto County Road 4120. The car accelerated at a high rate of speed and continued recklessly in what the deputy believed was an obvious attempt to evade him. The vehicle did eventually slow down, then stopped at the CR 4120 and CR 1120 intersection.
At that point, the deputy noted the Charger in question was green, not gray like the car viewed in the video in connection with the gunshots fired. The deputy removed the 24-yearold Ethan James Coble of Cumby from the car.
While the car was found not to have been involved in the shots being fired as earlier reported, Coble was arrested for evading arrest or detention with a vehicle, a felony offense.
Woman reports someone was jailed under her name
A 32-year-old woman arrested on a traffic charge didn’t make it out of the parking lot before deputies discovered the name she’d given them and had been booked into jail under someone else’s name.
Hopkins County Sheriff ’s Deputy Isaac Foley reported stopping the woman at 12:03 a.m. May 23 on Wildcat Way at State Highway 19 for an obscured license plate and for having a green light at the back of her vehicle. She gave deputies a name and date of birth and even signed multiple government documents and plead guilty to the offenses using the name she gave.
The woman was given credit for time served then released shortly before noon with credit for time served on the defective safety equipment charge.
As she was being escorted out of the jail, a woman called the sheriff ’s office claiming someone else had been booked into jail using her name. She gave the name given by the woman who had just been released from jail, deputies noted in arrest reports.
HCSO Lt. Wade Sheets and Deputy Foley contacted the woman who’d just been released in the parking lot outside the sheriff ’s office. When asked her name she again gave the name they had booked her into jail on just after midnight. They then advised the woman they knew that wasn’t her real name, that her real name is Heather. The woman claimed Heather was her cousin. As they escorted the 32-year-old into the county jail, she finally admitted her real name is Heather Lashay Self, and she believed she had two outstanding warrants. A records check showed Heather Self did indeed have two traffic warrants issued for her arrest because she didn’t take care of the fines, Foley alleged in arrest reports.
So, instead of being arrested on two misdemeanor traffic warrants Tuesday, she was returned to jail at noon May 23 on a new misdemeanor failure to identify charge and a felony forgery of a government document charge, the latter because of the arraignment forms she’d signed previously using the other woman’s name.
HCSO: Man caught with more than 7 grams of meth Hopkins County Sheriff 's Deputy Zack Horne stopped Richard Lee Lang at 9:22 a.m. for failing to signal when turning off State Highway 19 north onto County Road 3620.
The driver, deputies noted in arrest reports, failed to maintain eye contact with them and seemed disoriented. He had the driver exit the Chevrolet sedan.
When asked, Lang allegedly admitted there was methamphetamine in the vehicle. A bag of suspected meth was located in the car.
A records check showed the man to be wanted in Dallas County on a charge of theft of property valued at less than $2,500 but with two or more previous convictions.
The 45-year-old man was taken to jail, where the suspect methamphetamine weighed 7.74 grams with packaging, according to arrest reports.
Lang was charged not only on the warrant, but on a possession of 4 grams or more but less than 200 grams of a Penalty Group 1/1-B controlled substance charge as well, Horne noted in arrest reports.