Published: October 15, 2008 11:15 am            

Suspect makes it easy

No warrant, but visit to PD brings renewed interest, arrest

San Marcos — Whenever it’s necessary, the wheels of justice can virtually spin; while at other times things don’t go by quite that quickly.

That’s particularly true on weekends when judges don’t work except in emergencies.

One man learned that lesson the hard way early Tuesday when, expecting there were warrants out for his arrest, he showed up to turn himself in at police headquarters.

As it turns out, no warrants had yet been issued but the man didn’t go home free. Instead he was taken into custody for being drunk.

The string of events started when police were called to quell a loud party on Nance Street at around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

Police “heard a crashing sound and saw a black Isuzu backing into another vehicle,” Sgt. Fred Wisener of the SMPD said. Officers made contact with the driver of the Isuzu, who handed them his U.S. Passport as his ID, and were questioning him about his level of intoxication when he jumped out of the vehicle and ran away.

That prompted a brief chase as “they’d positively identified him through the passport.”

Fast forward just 24 hours, to around 2 a.m. Tuesday. That’s when SMPD Sgt. Dave Waugh said 26-year-old Troy Avery Whittington showed up in the lobby of police headquarters. “He was expecting that warrants would be procured for him and that is in the works,” Waugh said. “There were no warrants but he was intoxicated and was arrested.”

So in addition to expected charges of driving while intoxicated and evading arrest, Whittington has a public intoxication on his rap sheet, police said.

In other police reports, Waugh said a San Marcos woman filed a criminal complaint on Monday against two brothers from Maxwell that allegedly started but did not finish some $35,000 in home repairs.

The woman said the project started on Nov. 14, 2007 but the work has not been completed and the brothers “have refused to pay the money back or complete the work.”

Waugh said the allegations will be investigated to determine whether a crime occurred or if a civil case is the woman’s best avenue.

        

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