Longview Woman Arrested after Running Over Officer’s Leg

LONGVIEW — A Longview woman has been charged after police said she ran over an officer’s leg while he was working security at the Longview Mall. According to KETK, Whitney Chevonne George, 30, was booked into the Gregg County Jail on $250,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault against a public servant in the Sept. 27 case. George told police she was parked in the fire lane at Dillard’s at the mall waiting for her cousin. Eventually, she said, she walked inside the store. When she and her cousin came out, they were confronted by a police officer in uniform. George said the officer asked her for identification and reached in and grabbed her car’s gear shift.

She said this scared her and she drove off. The officer was hanging onto the vehicle, and George admitted dragging him across the pavement. Officer Elzie Turner was in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler with an injury to his left leg.