La Marque, TX – December 28, 2021 – The incident occurred in a police station parking lot. A parking lot likely under constant video surveillance and under frequent observation of law enforcement. Regardless, the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office couldn’t seem to find the evidence to prosecute a woman accused of dragging a repossession agent with her car.
The accused borrower, 29-year-old Nia Gray, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon shortly after the February 2020 incident.
The allegedly violent encounter occurred right in the police department’s parking lot at 431 Bayou Drive where a man working as a repossessor for a car dealership claimed to have tracked the borrower’s vehicle, secured by a delinquent loan to the police station where she entered to pick up another person.
As she exited the station, she reportedly observed the repossession in progress as he was approaching the vehicle, according to the filed complaint.
The recovery agent claimed that he had allowed Gray into the vehicle to remove some personal items when she started the car’s engine and drove away, allegedly dragging him across the parking lot as he tried to stop her from fleeing.
The unnamed repossession agent claimed to have a repossession order and notified the police department’s dispatcher advising of his impending attempt.
According to the complaint, the man attempting the repossession was not seriously injured, but did complain about pain in his knee and ankle.
Gray was reported as being stopped and arrested by police about a mile away from the police station where the injury occurred.
Gray was initially held on a $20,000 bond and later released. She had remained on bond since.
Almost two years since the incident and three continuances of the case, the DA dropped the charges stating on December 9th that the charge “could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Source: The Daily News, Galveston County
Charges dropped in repossession dragging – Repossession Violence
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