NAVASOTA POLICE FILE CHARGES AGAINST SUSPECT ACCUSED OF ARMED THREATS AGAINST MHMR VAN DRIVER

  

Navasota police have identified and charged the suspect accused in an armed threat incident involving an MHMR van last month.

55-year-old James Sapp of Navasota was detained by officers on February 27^th following a standoff where police claim he made threats during a 911 call to shoot the driver of a van transporting him to a mental health facility. 

Once authorities arrived and attempted to make contact with Sapp, police say he drove off in the van, but they used a non-lethal weapon through the vehicle’s glass and caused it to crash into an air compressor, resulting in Sapp being apprehended without further incident. 

According to a release issued today (Thursday) by the Navasota Police Department, after Sapp was taken to be treated for minor injuries at St. Joseph Hospital in Navasota, medical personnel requested he be transferred to a hospital in Houston to further treat possible facial injuries caused by debris inside the van. 

Per the release, while Sapp was at the Houston hospital, officials from the Houston Police Department determined he had an active warrant for Terroristic Threat out of Robertson County.  Once he was released from the hospital, Houston police took him into custody and booked him into the Harris County Jail. 

Navasota police have since filed additional arrest warrants against Sapp for Terroristic Threat, Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle and Criminal Mischief. 

Jail records indicate Sapp was booked today (Thursday) into the Brazos County Jail on the charges out of Navasota, as well as charges out of the Bryan Police Department for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Interference with Railroad Property.