It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
FEB. 12
Spitting on officers and refusing to go along quietly is not the way to avoid a trip to the jail, a lesson a 57-year-old Taylor man learned at 9:23 a.m. during an encounter with police in the 100 block of West Second Street. The case began when officers responded to a report of a terroristic threat.
Officers located the individual, but he spat on them and resisted attempts to place him under arrest, police said. After being detained, the man was charged with harassment on a peace officer, a third-degree felony, and resisting transportation, a Class A misdemeanor. He was taken for a medical evaluation prior to being transferred to the Williamson County Jail, but after he was medically cleared, the man again resisted officers and was charged with a second resisting transportation, a Class A misdemeanor.
FEB. 16
Striking a street sign and a light pole, and then leaving the scene, led to a one-way ticket to the county lockup for a 38-year-old Kissimmee, Florida, man, according to officers. The case unfolded at 2:23 a.m. when officers went to Bill Pickett Drive and T.H. Johnson Drive to investigate reports about damaged street signs. Officers found a stop sign and a street light damaged. Further search of the area produced a black Dodge Ram pickup with damage consistent with having struck the sign and light pole. Probing further, police contacted the suspected driver, and an investigation revealed that he had struck the stop sign and light pole before leaving his vehicle nearby because it was inoperable. The motorist was taken into custody for duty upon striking fixture with greater than $200 of damage, a Class B misdemeanor. He was also charged with failure to identify, a Class C misdemeanor, for failing to give proper identifying information once taken into custody for the previous charge.
