Allegations in court records give a snapshot of a wobbly commissioner at a Wichita County facility whose actions alarmed someone enough to call the cops to report a possible drunk driver.
Commissioner Jeff Watts hit a post when he pulled up to a county building north of Electra on State Highway 25 the evening of Feb. 18, according to allegations in court documents.
He stumbled getting out of his pickup and tripped and fell walking up to the Precinct 4 annex building to let in a cleaning crew from a Wichita Falls business, according to allegations in court documents. A witness called the Electra police.
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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.