Man jailed after downtown scuffle with police

A 23-year-old man was jailed on a laundry list of charges after he scuffled with officers trying to arrest him downtown over the weekend.

Police said Korey Ryan Aleman, of New Braunfels, initially produced someone else’s ID early Saturday after an officer thought he recognized him as being a suspect in a New Year’s Day shooting on San Antonio Street.

Aleman had walked into a bar but the officer asked him to step out and he complied, then he handed over the ID card and said he was the person it named.

Two officers began to detain him, but he resisted being handcuffed. “He was taken to the ground and continued to fight and resist,” Commander Kelly Bomersbach said in an email reply to a Daily Record request for information from City Hall. “We were able to immobilize his arms and a third officer, a plainclothes detective, removed a Ruger semi-automatic handgun from a holster in the front center of his waistband.

After his arrest he was searched and that search revealed two marijuana cigarettes as well as a glass methamphetamine pipe containing methamphetamine crystals.

He was charged with failing to properly identify himself, carrying a weapon in a licensed premise (the bar he had walked into) resisting arrest and parole violations, in addition to the drug charges.

He was still in Hays County Jail on Monday under bonds totaling $140,000.

Police said the plan to issue a press release in the coming days on the New Year’s Day shooting.