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| Terry Blaine Bessent | Sammie Celes Foster |
A Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation shortly after 3:00pm on Monday, October 24th, which led to the arrest of both of its occupants. The man was arrested for drug possession and two other charges, the woman was later arrested for trying to help him escape.
According to BSCO reports, after failing to signal at 9th Street and Avenue K, the deputy initiated the traffic stop near Elizabeth and Avenue K. The 4-door passenger car slowed and pulled over near the intersection of Elizabeth and Roselawn, not coming to a complete stop, as the female driver looked back at the deputy and then accelerated another half of a block, the report states. The front seat passenger, later identified as 28-year-old Terry Blaine Bessent, then jumped out of the car and began to run on foot. The deputy chased the subject with his vehicle down the alley until the man ran into an open gate of the yard at 2005 1st Street, across from Coggin Park. The deputy kept chasing Bessent through yards until he reached the back yard of 2009 1st Street and was assisted by a Brownwood Police officer, the report states. The deputy then retraced the area where the chase had occurred and found a small gray eye glass case which was lying next to the house at 2005 1st Street, the report states. The case was opened and found to contain a meth pipe with meth residue, according to the report.
Bessent was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance Penalty Grade 1 Less than 1g in a Drug Free Zone; Evading Arrest and Tampering with Evidence. Bessent was being held in the Brown County Jail on bonds totaling $60,000 as of Tuesday morning.
The driver, 25-year-old Sammie Celes Foster of Mullin, was arrested for Evading Arrest/Detention with Vehicle due to her actions helping Bessent flee, according to officials. Foster was released Monday upon posting bail of $5000.
In other unrelated reports released Tuesday, October 25, 2011:
Monday, October 24
*7:43pm-Brownwood Police were called to the Brownwood Regional Medical Center emergency room regarding a juvenile patient who had been bit in the face by a neighbor’s dog in the 2500 block of Greenway. According to the report, the 8-year-old boy’s father stated that his son had been bitten in the face by the neighbor’s dog, which was a black and white mixed breed.
When the officer arrived, the boy’s ½ inch laceration to his lip had already been stitched up by medical staff, the report states. The man explained to the officer that his son had been playing with a ball when it went over the neighbor’s fence. The neighbor’s daughter was in the backyard and the boy felt it was safe to go and retrieve his ball, according to police. When the girl took the ball from the dog, it turned and bit the boy on the face, the report states.
The father told to police that this was not the first time the dog had bitten someone and that the fence is marked with signs stating “beware of dog”, the report states.
Tuesday, October 25
*1:29am-A Brownwood Police officer made a pedestrian stop in the 100 block of Bluffview at the west entrance of the Law Enforcement Center. The subject, identified as 42-year-old Myron Oscar Condon, was found to have a protective order against him for a property located within that same block. Condon was arrested for the violation of the protective order and taken to the Brown County Jail.
All arrestees are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
