The Brief<\/p>\n
Dallas police were investigating a crash in the 500 block of North Zang Boulevard early Sunday when a gathered crowd began interfering with the investigation and assaulting officers.<\/p>\n
Five individuals were taken into custody on various charges, including assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
Despite the reported physical interference and assaults, the department confirmed that no officers were injured during the encounter.<\/p>\n
DALLAS – Five people were arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly assaulting police officers and interfering with a crash investigation in central Oak Cliff.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Dallas police responded to an “assist officer” call in the 500 block of North Zang Boulevard just after midnight Sunday. According to investigators, a crowd gathered while officers were working a crash scene and began interfering with the investigation.<\/p>\n
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The situation escalated as members of the crowd reportedly assaulted officers. No police injuries were reported, but several people were taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
The following individuals were arrested:<\/p>\n
Jaqueline Ramirez Reyes, 26: Charged with assault on a peace officer, a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n
Joel Huerta, 36: Charged with possession of a controlled substance (under 1 gram), a state jail felony, and interference with public duties.<\/p>\n
Carlos Nolasco, 21: Charged with resisting arrest and interference with public duties.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Hernandez, 23, and Yadira Saldago, 28: Arrested for public intoxication and outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing, and it remains unclear how many people were involved in the initial crash that led to the police response.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article comes from Dallas police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Dallas police were investigating a crash in the 500 block of North Zang Boulevard early Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28657,55739,102,104,103,401,55737,55740,55738,2927,18976,55736,55741],"class_list":["post-130074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crash-investigation","tag-crash-scene","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-gathered-crowd","tag-north-zang-boulevard","tag-peace-officer","tag-police-officers","tag-possession-of-a-controlled-substance","tag-resisting-arrest","tag-the-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}