HOWE, Texas – On Wednesday, August 18, at 3:40 p.m., Howe police officers arrested a 42-year-old Plano man for Driving While Intoxicated (3rd or more) after stopping him in the 100 block of North Collins Freeway on suspicion of impaired driving. Police say they were alerted to the suspect’s erratic driving by a motorist who reported following the suspect from Denison and seeing the suspect drinking from a beer can.
On Thursday, August 19, at 12:30 a.m., while checking on a vehicle parked on the shoulder of the west control road of U.S. Highway 75 at West Farmington, a Howe police officer encountered a 38-year-old Howe man and a 37-year-old Anna woman walking toward the parked vehicle. The officer reported that the woman was nude from the waist down and that both individuals were heavily intoxicated.
The man told the officer that he was driving the vehicle that the officer had stopped to check on, and that when he pulled up to the intersection, the female jumped out of his vehicle. He said he was merely trying to get her back inside when the officer arrived.
The driver was arrested for DWI and Unlawful Carrying a Weapon and a 38-year-old male passenger from Van Alstyne was charged with Public Intoxication. Police report that the female was taken to a local hospital by ambulance because of her extremely high intoxication level.