KHOU reports one strange Eastex Freeway tale
KHOU-11 posts what can only be described as an odd story:
Valencia Lee and Latesta Onyenike were Northbound at Crosstimbers on Highway 59 when a motorcycle officer, who was supposedly escorting a funeral procession, waved them over.
Lee says he told her, “‘You on the cell phone and I'm directing traffic,’ that's all he said,” Lee, added the officer ordered her to keep her car where it was. The women said the man, who was wearing a black jacket with the word “Sheriff” on the back, then asked for the car keys.
Lee said she handed the keys over because she was afraid if she didn’t, she would wind up in jail.
But after getting her keys, the escort officer just took off, leaving Lee and Onyenike stranded on the right shoulder of the freeway.
Three hours later, a Safe-Clear Wrecker took the women and their car to a safer location off the freeway.
Then Lee called the Sheriff's Office, which dispatched a deputy and who had her towed to her apartment.
[snip]
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is trying to determine what happened and if a legitimate peace [sic] officer was involved. They are not sure if he is truly a deputy with the sheriff’s office or some other agency.
If everything happened as described, that is one strange story (including the three-hour SAFEclear response time).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/17/07 11:21 PM | Print |
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