Paper: Houston Chronicle
Date: THU 4/22/04

HPD officer charged with evading arrest

Staff

A Houston police officer has been relieved of duty with pay after he was accused of leading Harris County sheriff's deputies on a chase.

Bobby Thompson, 46, an 18-year HPD veteran assigned to the Westside patrol division, is charged with felony evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

Thompson, of the 3400 block of Walnut Bend, was off duty and with his wife Saturday when a deputy clocked him exceeding 90 mph in a 45-mph zone, said sheriff's Maj. Mike Smith.

Thompson was arrested after he went off the 19000 block of Westheimer Parkway and did not explain why he had refused to stop, Smith said. Neither Thompson nor his wife was injured.