A 19-year-old fleeing an accident broadsided a police car in Old East Dallas Saturday and sent two cops to the hospital, according to Dallas police reports.
Stephen Michael Jones is accused of causing one accident and leaving the scene, only to T-bone a Dallas police squad car near Munger and Tremont. The two officers in the car had concussions, and one had broken bones. Jones has been charged with assaulting a public servant and intoxication assault on a police officer. Those felonies are punishable by up to 10 and 20 years in prison, respectively.
The kid allegedly had been drinking illegally at Hotel Capri on Lower Greenville. (I guess someone has to pick up the slack since this other den of underage drinking closed. Are there not enough legal drinkers to keep these joints in business?)
Later, the police supposedly raided Hotel Capri, although the original media release, which we’ve posted in full after the jump, says a raid “cannot be confirmed and that information was not given out by this office”. I’m not sure why DPD would want to distance itself from raiding a bar where knuckleheads are drinking underage.
On 7/23/2010 at 11:20 pm arrestee Stephen Michael Jones W/M/01-14-91 was fleeing the scene of a major a accident that he caused at St. Mary Ave. and Lindsley Ave. He was traveling westbound in a 2002 Saturn in the 5200 block of treemont when he ran a stop sign and collided with a marked Dallas Police squad car. The suspect t-boned the squad car in the passenger door where Senior Corporal Cynthia Arispe was sitting. The squad car was being driven by Officer Calvin Scudder. The officers were travelling NB on Munger at Treemont when they were struck. Both officers were transported to Baylor hospital with injuries. Both officers went through numerous tests and X-Rays all with negative results, just bad bumps and bruises. The suspect was arrested at the scene and charged with one count of assault on a public servant F/3 (fleeing the scene of first accident and intentionally ran stop sign) and one count of intoxication assault on a police officer F/2. He is at Lew Sterret. There are reports circulating that officers went to the location where the suspect had been drinking and raided the place but that cannot be confirmed and that information was not given out by this office. The accident was not caught on the damaged squad cars dash cam. The passenger in suspect Jones vehicle was not injured but I do not know if he was arrested for public intoxication or not.
