HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A faculty bus driver was pulled over and arrested Friday morning with kids on board, based on police.
Police say the motive force, whom Eyewitness Information is not naming till fees are filed, assaulted a police officer and failed to supply identification when requested.
The arrest occurred simply earlier than 7 a.m. on Glenmont at Renwick as the motive force, who works for Flores Bus Providers, was taking college students to YES Prep Gulfton.
Video recorded by the motive force’s sister-in-law and fellow Flores Bus Providers driver, Mireya Flores, reveals the bus cease in a flip lane, proper alongside the place police had one other car pulled over.
That visitors cease, which appeared to contain undercover officers, was being carried out as a part of a lethal conduct investigation tied to a murder, based on a supply.
A number of folks may be seen standing outdoors the car, whom Crystal Ramirez Flores mentioned the bus driver acknowledged as purchasers of her personal bus service.
“It was an entire household standing there: a husband, a spouse, and the youngsters,” Ramirez Flores mentioned.
Video reveals a police officer motioning towards the bus earlier than one other officer approaches and begins pounding on the door.
“Once they instructed her to maneuver, she was transferring, however the different is rather like pounding on the home windows attempting to open the door and attempting to get in,” Flores mentioned.
Police say they requested the motive force for her identification, however that she refused and that they then initiated a visitors cease on the bus.
The bus may be seen driving off, then pulling over to the facet of the highway a brief distance away, as an unmarked police unit follows.
The driving force’s household claims officers then boarded the bus, assaulted the motive force, and dragged her off. None of that is clear from the video, neither is the second police declare the motive force assaulted an officer.
“She did not contact them, she did not assault them, she simply spoke to them straight, and that is it,” Flores mentioned.
Police say it was extra than simply phrases and sufficient to warrant an assault on an officer cost.
“They need to dismiss it, and I believe this entire state of affairs was ridiculous,” Ramirez Flores mentioned.
YES Prep hasn’t responded to Eyewitness Information’ request for remark.
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