HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A school bus driver was pulled over and arrested Friday morning with children on board, according to police.
Police say the driver, whom Eyewitness News isn’t naming until charges are filed, assaulted a police officer and failed to provide identification when asked.
The arrest happened just before 7 a.m. on Glenmont at Renwick as the driver, who works for Flores Bus Services, was taking students to YES Prep Gulfton.
Video recorded by the driver’s sister-in-law and fellow Flores Bus Services driver, Mireya Flores, shows the bus stop in a turn lane, right alongside where police had another vehicle pulled over.
That traffic stop, which appeared to involve undercover officers, was being conducted as part of a deadly conduct investigation tied to a homicide, according to a source.
Several people can be seen standing outside the vehicle, whom Crystal Ramirez Flores said the bus driver recognized as clients of her private bus service.
“It was a whole family standing there: a husband, a wife, and the children,” Ramirez Flores said.
Video shows a police officer motioning toward the bus before another officer approaches and begins pounding on the door.
“When they told her to move, she was moving, but the other is just like pounding on the windows trying to open the door and trying to get in,” Flores said.
Police say they asked the driver for her identification, but that she refused and that they then initiated a traffic stop on the bus.
The bus can be seen driving off, then pulling over to the side of the road a short distance away, as an unmarked police unit follows.
The driver’s family claims officers then boarded the bus, assaulted the driver, and dragged her off. None of this is clear from the video, nor is the moment police claim the driver assaulted an officer.
“She didn’t touch them, she didn’t assault them, she just spoke to them directly, and that’s it,” Flores said.
Police say it was more than just words and enough to warrant an assault on an officer charge.
“They should dismiss it, and I think this whole situation was ridiculous,” Ramirez Flores said.
YES Prep hasn’t responded to Eyewitness News’ request for comment.
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