FOUR ARRESTED AFTER MULTI-COUNTY HIGH-SPEED CHASE ENDING IN WALLER CO.
Four men were taken into custody in Grimes County after a multi-county pursuit Saturday morning.
According to the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office, a black Toyota Camry reported stolen out of San Antonio was seen on North Lasalle Street in Navasota. The vehicle was moving at high speeds when a deputy attempted to stop the vehicle, which led authorities on a chase with speeds reaching 130 mph.
After receiving an agency assist request from Washington County, Waller police deployed spikes on Highway 290, west of FM 362. Police say the vehicle was disabled shortly after the spikes punctured its two left tires.
The driver, Erwin Cruz Guzman, is charged with Evading Arrest or Detention with a Vehicle. Update @ 11:15 a.m.: Three passengers, identified as Jose Cardoza, John Juarez and Eldridge Seagroves, are charged with minor drug possession.
According to the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office, the suspects are persons of interest in three aggravated robbery cases in Bryan.
(Grimes Co. Jail)
If the vehicle was reported stolen out of San Antonio, why no auto theft charge, since that’s the alleged reason for chasing them? And what is a minor drug charge?
So many stories, like this one, leave me with more questions than information/answers. Especially stories where the police’s side of the story is the only side told. Just once I would love to hear BOTH SIDES of the stories reported.
With the individuals charged and likely to be indicted, I’m sure any legal representative for them would tell them not to say a word about the case. Between the suspects and the police, that’s the only two sides that there would be. However, I do agree that in many cases, many more charges could be brought but I have been told by a police officer (informally) that if a similar situation were to include speeding, failure to signal a lane change, and things of that nature, the prosecutors would likely throw them out prior to the trial commencing. It does make you wonder, however, that if all those charges were to be kept, and they were convicted on all, how much longer their sentence might be.