I was involved some on intake of this guy in Amarillo, now he's here. The SECOND defendant whose case I was involved with in Amarillo with a case here. The second guy (not related to Supernaw's case) I prosecuted at trial in Amarillo and he picked up felonies here before my arrival. 500 miles is not as far as it seems, I guess.

Anyone else have defendants following them across Texas?

(copied from today's Bryan-College Station Eagle)

Supernaw held for intoxication

By CRAIG KAPITAN
Eagle Staff Writer

Country music artist Doug Supernaw added another arrest to his growing
list of drug and alcohol related offenses early Sunday — this time
causing an off-duty Bryan police officer to draw his gun.

The Bellville-based singer, who scored top country hits in 1993 with
“Reno” and “I Don’t Call Him Daddy,” was booked into the Brazos County
Jail on charges of fleeing from an officer and public intoxication.

He remained at the jail Sunday evening on $2,500 bond for the
misdemeanor charges.

Supernaw drew police attention Sunday after an officer living at Aggie
Station Apartments on Wellborn Road witnessed him yelling obscenities
and making obscene gestures as he walked toward the complex, according
to court documents.

Officer Brett Boswell, who also provides security for the apartments,
approached Supernaw while wearing his handgun and handheld radio and
showed the singer his badge, he said. He soon realized the man was
“obviously intoxicated,” he noted.

Staggering, slurring his words, smelling of alcohol and “slightly
belligerent,” Supernaw said he didn’t have any friends that could come
get him, so the officer called for an on-duty colleague to arrest him
for the misdemeanor intoxication charge, documents state. In the
meantime, the officer reported, he told Supernaw to sit on the curb so
he wouldn’t stumble into traffic.

But as the two were waiting for a unit to arrive, Supernaw got up and
began walking away. After the officer yelled at him to stop several
times, “Doug stopped, turned around and told me that he didn’t have to
listen to me,” Boswell reported.

Supernaw then took off running with Boswell in pursuit, stopping only
after he got tired, documents state.

“ He turned to face me and got into a fighting posture,” Boswell said in
court documents, explaining that the singer’s fists weren’t raised but
his feet were positioned “as if he was going to charge me or assault me.”

That’s when the officer decided to pull out his gun, pointing it toward
the ground, documents state.

“ Doug asked, ‘What are [you] going to do, shoot me?’” Boswell reported.
“I informed him that if he attacked me, I would. Doug kept his distance
and didn’t move.”

Soon after, a uniformed officer arrived and Supernaw was taken to jail.

Evading arrest is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in
jail and a $2,000 fine. In addition, Supernaw could owe a $400 fine for
the public intoxication charge, which is a Class C misdemeanor.

The Sunday incident was one in a long line of arrests for Supernaw in
recent years. The singer’s rap sheet includes a 1998 arrest at the
Houston Livestock Show for public intoxication, two arrests for failure
to pay child support, a 2002 arrest for public intoxication and
resisting arrest outside a Brenham bar and several subsequent charges of
felony bail jumping in connection to the Brenham incident.

He also was arrested in Amarillo last May when a hotel worker had to
open his room with a crowbar after other guests complained of loud
noises. Officers found Supernaw naked in his room, which was in “extreme
disarray,” and smelled marijuana, the Amarillo Globe-News reported at
the time.

During a May 2004 trial in Washington County for one of the bail jumping
charges, Supernaw described himself on the witness stand as a
professional baseball player, a professional golfer and “one of the best
[songwriters] in the world.”

Prosecutors alleged that Supernaw fled to Mexico, living there for
several months when he knew he should be in Washington County facing a
charge for resisting arrest. The singer was arrested at the Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport while returning home from Mexico to perform
some concerts, he told the jury.

The trial, which could have ended in a sentence of up to 10 years in
prison, instead ended with a hung jury.

I used to work in Washington County so I know about all his criminal problems. You might want to contact the DA and/or CA there and see the similarities in your new case and the cases he has/had there.

Good luck!!