Up to date at 12:30 a.m.: Revised all through to incorporate further data.
Former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Dallas on a domestic-violence cost.
Dallas police introduced the arrest simply earlier than midnight Tuesday.
In accordance with police, officers had been referred to as about 5:15 p.m. a couple of disturbance within the 3300 block of West Mockingbird Lane, close to Dallas Love Area. They spoke to a lady who stated she had been assaulted by a person she knew.
Police stated they recognized Dewhurst as a suspect, and he was taken into custody on a misdemeanor cost of family-violence assault and booked into the Dallas County jail.
Jail data confirmed that he had been booked into the power about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. His bail had not been set and it was unclear whether or not he had an legal professional.
Dallas police stated the division’s public integrity unit would conduct the investigation.
Dewhurst was Texas’ lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2015. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012 however misplaced his bid for the Republican nomination to Ted Cruz in a runoff. In 2014, he misplaced his bid for a fourth time period as lieutenant governor in a main runoff in opposition to Dan Patrick.