CUMBY—While traveling westbound on Tarrant Street in Cumby Friday afternoon, Cumby Police reported spotting a Mazda Protege, allegedly without a front license plate required by Texas state law, driving southbound on State Highway 275. The officer states in his arrest report that he followed the vehicle and attempted to pull the car over, indicated by the red and blue lights of the patrol vehicle. The driver, the officer alleged, continued driving, turned onto Private Road 4730, at which point, the officer reported turning on his patrol car’s siren.
“The driver made a waving gesture with his left arm out the window and continued driving,” the officer reported.
The driver continued at low speed for about a mile, the deputy alleged, and came to a stop at the end of the road near a residence, according to the report.
When the driver is reported to have opened his door, the officer stated that he ordered the man to stay in his car, “as I did not know what his intentions were after refusing to pull over for an emergency vehicle with activated lights and sirens,” the officer wrote in the report.
The officer then alleged he took out his handgun, ordering the driver to show his hands as he exited the vehicle and to stand with his back to the officer. The man, however, stood facing the officer, the latter reported, with “his hands near his pockets.
During repeated orders to face away from the officer with his hands up, the officer wrote, the man allegedly continued to disobey the orders and “repeatedly state he was not going to do what he was being ordered to do because he was on his property,” the report read.
According to the report, Cumby Police Chief P. Robertson arrived and Tased the man while ordering him to turn around. The man allegedly still refused. Robertson again Tased the man, this time in the chest, the officer stated in the report, and “the suspect fell to the ground and continued to resist with police as we both attempted to handcuff him,” the officer wrote.
The license plate on the rear of the Mazda was allegedly stolen, the report read, and the man was allegedly found to have a Collin County warrant for probation revocation.
Wesallen Rogers, 39, of Cumby was arrested on the warrant and on charges of theft, felony evading arrest in a vehicle and resisting arrest. Bond on the warrant was set at $10,000, on the evading charge at $10,000, resisting arrest at $2,000 and theft at $1,000.