Blotter: Woman thinks road rager shot her car while on I-35

When police arrived, the caller said she was driving on South Interstate 35E near Teasley Lane when a vehicle started tailgating her. She said the vehicle pulled past her and brake-checked her.

The woman said she tried to avoid the vehicle after that. She said she heard a loud noise, and the vehicle sped off quickly. One of her passengers said they also saw a bright flash come out of the suspect vehicle.

After exiting and pulling over, the woman located a projectile lodged in her taillight. She provided the evidence to police. Police spokesperson Allison Beckwith said the report doesn’t specify, but the projectile was likely a bullet.

The woman and the passengers weren’t able to provide many descriptive details about the suspect other than that the driver was male.

Police are still investigating the shooting.

Other reports

2000 block of I-35W — A 20-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly driving 126 mph in traffic, according to a police report.

At about 7:53 p.m., an officer was monitoring traffic on the interstate when, the report states, their in-car radar clocked a vehicle moving at 116 mph. The red sedan was moving significantly faster than traffic and passed other vehicles. The sedan’s speed topped 126 mph before it suddenly slowed down, according to the report.

Pulling out onto the highway, the officer activated emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop on the sedan. The report states that the sedan stopped on the left shoulder but was still partly in the roadway.

The officer quickly exited the vehicle and detained the driver in double-locked handcuffs. The report states that the officer did this to get the driver to a safer location to conduct the traffic investigation. Based on the alleged excessive speed, the officer took the man into custody on a charge of reckless driving.

The officer notes in the report that a vehicle traveling at 126 mph moves at 180 feet per second. The average human reaction time while operating a motor vehicle is 1.5 seconds, according to the officer. At the speed he was traveling, the driver’s vehicle would have traveled 277 feet before he could have reacted to a hazard, according to the officer. Thus, the officer wrote that the driver would not have had time to stop or avoid a possible collision.

700 block of South I-35E — A 52-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday after an officer allegedly saw her stash a methamphetamine pipe and a stolen check in a bush, according to a police report.

At about 3:16 p.m., an off-duty officer was driving in the 200 block of East McKinney Street and observed a woman driving a U-Haul. The officer recognized the woman and knew she was a suspect in burglaries, according to the report.

Believing she might be involved in suspicious activity, the report states, the officer followed the woman as she drove to Plato’s Closet. As she took some shoes into the business, the officer called for backup to come investigate.

When the woman left the store, she allegedly stopped by some bushes outside the exit. Officers checked the bushes and located a meth pipe on the ground that was wrapped in a check issued to someone who was not the woman, according to the report.

Officers arrested the woman on suspicion of tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair. They searched her before transporting her and allegedly discovered meth and multiple credit cards belongings to different people on her. The report states that the credit cards were not issued to the person whose name was on the check.

Along with tampering, the woman was charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a methamphetamine, as well as with fraudulent possession of identifying information.

The media incident report related to the arrest also mentioned police recovered stolen property, but Beckwith said she wasn’t sure what the stolen property could be because the report made no mention of it. She said it’s unlikely the U-Haul was the stolen property because officers likely would’ve coded that as unauthorized use of vehicle instead.

Roundup

From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the Denton Police Department handled 401 service and officer-initiated calls and made five arrests.