Police use TASER on woman at local hamburger joint

People having breakfast at  Whataburger Saturday morning got more than what they ordered off the menu. Police used a TASER to disable a woman who was allegedly swinging a metal nail file at them.

It all started minutes before 8:30 a.m. when a woman identified as Salaha Estella Loggins, walked into the restaurant at the corner of Hwy. 123 and the East Access Road and “started a verbal altercation with two other customers,” SMPD Commander Kelly Bomersbach said in an email answer to a request the Daily Record sent to City Hall regarding the incident. 

The two people Loggins was arguing with left, and she sat down in a booth, Bomersbach wrote, refusing to leave when Whataburger staff asked her to. 

Loggins was “verbally noncompliant” when officers approached, and reportedly cursed at them. Loggins “was known to several officers and in a previous contact, had a knife concealed in her bra,” Bomersbach wrote. She refused to show officers her right hand, then pulled it from her jacket pocket and pointed the metal object “later determined to be a metal nail file” and swung it. 

Loggins, who is still in Hays County Jail under bonds totaling $37,000, is charged with aggravated assault against a public servant, a first-degree felony, Resisting arrest/search, a third degree felony, criminal trespass, a Class B Misdemeanor and, because “several pieces of mail in her possession that did not belong to her,” fraudulent use/possession of identifying information, a second-degree felony.

It wasn’t her first offense. Online records indicate that Loggins has twice before been charged with assaulting a public servant, twice for criminal trespass and three times for resisting arrest.

In other weekend police reports, a 34-year-old man was arrested for charges including evading arrest and reckless driving early Sunday.

Officers responded at 1:16 a.m. to a call about someone in a black and white Crown Victoria speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating and changing lanes without signaling on Interstate 35 North. “The vehicle stopped after a short pursuit in the Del Sol, Patricia, Broadway Street area,” Bomersbach wrote, adding that it came to an end in the 400 block of Broadway. The driver, Kevin Eugene Kent of Creedmoor, was still behind bars as of press time in lieu of $8,000 in bonds.