A Wichita Falls man tried to drive away in a pickup from a running officer, who reached into the vehicle and Tased him early Monday morning, according to allegations in court documents.
Mark Albert Savala, 57, was being held Monday in the Wichita County Jail on bonds of $7,000, according to online jail records.
Savala has been charged with felony evading arrest or detention with a vehicle and misdemeanor resisting arrest, according to court records.
If convicted of the evading charge, he faces up to 10 years in prison. Resisting arrest is punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine up to $4,000.
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PUC: Most Texans won t see hike in electric bills
Texas Public Utilities Commission said most Texans will not see a dramatic spike in their electric bills as a result of the recent winter storm. Because most residential electricity customers are on fixed-price contracts with their power providers, they are not exposed to changes in their rates, the commission said in a statement released Sunday.
Some Texans complained on social media and elsewhere they were being hit by exorbitant electric bills, but the PUC said those instances should be rare. In areas with retail competition, customers have a contract with a retail electric provider that they have chosen. There is not a mechanism where a retail electric provider can go back and change the price agreed to in the contract, the PUC said.