Posted by: hbrand - 03/09/10

By Eddie Farrell, BRAND Staff Writer

For the second time in less than a week, a Hereford couple is in custody in the Deaf Smith County jail, this time for assaulting each other – and police – after officers were called to a local motel on a domestic disturbance complaint.

Reynard Dove II, 28, and Staci Ann Williams, 31, both of Hereford, were arrested after each apparently assaulted the other over allegations of money theft and drug use at a local motel.

According to police reports, officers were dispatched to the Relax Inn, 520 W. 1st St. at 10:08 p.m. Saturday to investigate a domestic disturbance call. As officers arrived, they reported hearing “yelling and screaming” emanating from a second-floor room of the motel.

As officers approached, Dove reportedly walked out of the room, and quickly re-entered and was found yelling at Williams, accusing her of stealing the proceeds of his paycheck and using the money on drugs.

Officers on the scene reported Williams was allegedly “severely intoxicated,” but denying that she had taken Dove’s money.

She did reportedly admit, however, she had “kicked, punched and slapped” Williams “due to the fact he was acting stupid.”

Dove, too, reportedly admitted to hitting Williams during the dispute, and officers reported viewing red marking around the woman’s throat.

As Dove was being taken into custody, he reportedly began resisting arrest, and began, according to police reports, “shoving” one of the arresting officers around the motel room.

During the arrest process, Dove also reportedly loudly claimed the pair were being “picked on” by local police due to the fact that they had been arrested the previous Sunday (Feb. 28) with a third man, Matthew Cole Bullard, who had reportedly attempted to hide a half-ounce bag of marijuana inside a body orifice. In that case, Dove was charged with possession of marijuana and Williams with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Dove claimed it was a news article in the March 2 Hereford Brand reporting the arrests that prompted the most recent arrest of the couple.

Both Dove and Williams now face additional charges – Williams faces a single count of assault (C); Dove a single count of domestic abuse (A) and resisting arrest.

In an unrelated arrest, Hereford police arrested 19-year-old Cristina Nieto on drug-related charges after pulling her vehicle over for driving with a burned-out headlight at 9:32 p.m. Friday in the 100 block of N. 25 Mile

Ave.

Officers on the scene, however, reported smelling burnt marijuana emanating from Nieto’s vehicle and according to reports, a small baggy filled with marijuana was in plain sight on the vehicle’s center console.

A search of Nieto, according to reports, turned up a “partially-smoked marijuana cigar” in the woman’s possession. Initially, according to reports, neither Nieto nor the two passengers in the vehicle would admit to ownership of the marijuana in plain sight, but ultimately Nieto admitted to officers the marijuana was hers.

After being asked, according to reports, on two occasions if she had any more marijuana in her possession, Nieto was booked into the Deaf Smith County jail, where two more small bags of marijuana were discovered inside the woman’s bra, according to police reports.

Nieto now faces a charge of possession of marijuana, under two ounces, as well as a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance inside a correctional institution.

In a third unrelated incident, Enrique Lucio Garcia, 24, of Hereford was taken into custody after allegedly running a stop sign at 12:21 a.m. Sunday morning.

The officer who initiated the traffic stop reportedly immediately smelled the aroma of burnt marijuana in Garcia’s vehicle and asked the man if he had been drinking or smoking marijuana.

Garcia reportedly told the officer he had consumed “a couple of beers,” and had smoked some marijuana “earlier in the day.”

When the officer asked Garcia for permission to search the vehicle, Garcia reportedly told the officer he “didn’t think” there was any marijuana inside the vehicle.

The officer, however, immediately found “a small piece of brown paper containing marijuana” on the vehicle floor board right in front of the driver’s seat.

Garcia, according to reports, told the officer “that’s the marijuana I lost earlier today and I forgot it was there.”

Garcia was booked into the Deaf Smith County jail, where he faces a charge of possession of marijuana, under two ounces.

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