An Iowa Park woman was booked into the Donley County Jail Monday after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase from Clarendon to Memphis.
Michelle Dehoyos, age 40, was wanted out of Iowa Park for a hit and run involving a police officer when she was spotted in Clarendon shortly before 9 a.m. Monday. A Donley County deputy gave pursuit and as Dehoyos fled east on US 287 at speeds of up to 120 mph.
Sheriff Butch Blackburn said Dehoyos wrecked her car in Memphis, hitting a pipe fence near the old John Deere dealership on the west side of town.
The Iowa Park Leader told the Enterprise that police in that city had been dispatched to an apartment complex where a woman was reported to be acting erratically. As officers responded, the suspect fled in a blue car. One officer managed to get her patrol car behind Dehoyos’ vehicle, but the suspect then put her car in reverse and backed into the officer’s vehicle and fled.
Dehoyos later called her children and said she was headed to Vernon.
Donley County Justice of the Peace Pam Mason arraigned Dehoyos Tuesday on charges of Driving While Intoxicated and Evading Arrest in a Motor Vehicle. Bond was set at $1,500 on the DWI and $10,000 on the evading charge.
The Leader reports that Dehoyos is also facing charges in Iowa Park of evading and causing an accident involving damage greater than $200.
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