A car was clocked by a Brazos County deputy sheriff Wednesday night on Highway 21 near Wixon Valley was going at least 118 miles per hour when the deputy ended a pursuit using his emergency lights. According to the deputy’s arrest report, he found the car less than a minute later wrecked and in the ditch. The other vehicle involved in the crash was found 200 yards away. The driver of the speeding car, who told the deputy he didn’t see the flashing lights, had just slight discomfort from his face striking an airbag. The driver and a passenger in the second vehicle were checked out by EMT’s and refused treatment or transport. The driver of the speeding car, 26 year old Ladarius Merchant of Madisonville, was arrested by the sheriff’s deputy for possessing seven baggies of marijuana containing a combined one ounce of weed. Merchant is out of jail after posting a bond promising he will make future court appearances.
A former employee of College Station’s Goodwill store is accused of pocketing $753 dollars during one shift last March. After a CSPD detective reviewed the store’s surveillance video, 18 year old Natalie Elizondo of Bryan gave three explanations. According to the arrest report, she told the detective that she did not take the money, she took the money but put it back in her register at the end of the night, and that she gave the money to her manager. The manager told the detective she never received any money, and she was the one who noticed Elizondo was making an unusual amount of returns. Elizondo is out of jail after posting a $4,000 dollar bond.
A passenger in a SUV that was stopped by College Station police Wednesday during the midnight hour is arrested on charges of possessing identification documents belonging to six other people and having methamphetamine. According to the CSPD arrest report, a SUV was stopped for having an unreadable paper tag which was folded down inside a wet plastic sleeve. The officer learned the driver and passenger were wanted on warrants from Bryan municipal court. The officer believed there were narcotics in the vehicle. That led to getting a CSPD K-9 to sniff outside the SUV. After the K-9 detected narcotics, a search inside the SUV led to discovering the meth and a box with fewer than 50 I-D documents. The box contained…among other things…an undisclosed number of social security and retail store credit cards, along with three government I-D cards and two debit cards. That led to the arrest of the passenger, 41 year old Tasha Hermosillo of College Station. She remains in jail in lieu of bonds totaling $20,000 dollars. The driver, 35 year old Amanda Whiting of Bryan, was arrested on warrants charging her with possessing drug paraphernalia. She was released from jail to community service.
