Driver charged after pedestrian's body found in front seat

Deputy Constable Paul Armand was making what he thought was a routine traffic stop early Tuesday morning when he pulled over a car that didn't have headlights on.

As he approached the black Mazda 626, the Precinct 8 deputy noticed the driver had blood on his face. He also saw that the front windshield was shattered and partially inside the vehicle.

The deputy constable then saw a body in the passenger seat, partially underneath the dashboard and with a severed leg.

"He (Armand) was shocked," said Precinct 8 Capt. Jason Finnen.

The driver, James John Onak, 45, told the deputy he didn't realize a dead body was in the passenger seat, Finnen said.

Police allege Onak struck 32-year-old Fadel Steadman with his car on the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston and kept on driving for three miles while the man's body lay in his passenger seat.

Onak was later arrested and charged with felony failure to stop and render aid involving a fatality and driving while intoxicated.

Houston police, who took over the investigation, estimate that the accident occurred in the southbound lanes of the 12200 block of Gulf Freeway around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, about 10 minutes before Armand pulled Onak over.

Investigators believe Steadman had pulled his Ford Explorer into the emergency lane on the left side of the freeway near Fuqua after the vehicle broke down.

Witnesses told police Steadman was running back and forth across the freeway when he was struck by the Mazda.

The collision forced Steadman's body through the windshield, and he landed in the front passenger seat inside the car, police said.However, Onak did not stop driving. Police said he got off the freeway and drove a few more blocks before he was pulled over by Armand on Kirkvalley near Beamer, police said.

Onak told Armand he thought he had hit something while driving down the Gulf Freeway, but he was not sure, Finnen said.

After discovering the body in the seat, Armand called paramedics and additional deputy constables to the scene. While searching the freeway, another deputy constable located the Mazda's licence plate as well as what appeared to be Steadman's leg, Finnen said.

In 2001, a Fort Worth woman, who after a night of drinking and using drugs, struck a homeless man with her car and drove home with the man crumpled in the windshield. She then left him in her garage where he died two days later. The woman, Chante Mallard, was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2003.

Onak, who is jailed in lieu of a $55,500 bail, faces two to 10 years in prison as well as up to a $10,000 fine for the felony charge.

He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.

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Teacher Charged in Breast Milk Assault

Deputies with the Delaware County sheriff's office arrived at a banquet hall early Saturday morning expecting to break up a domestic dispute. Instead, they were met by breast milk.

Stephanie Robinette, 30, of Westerville, Ohio was arrested about 1 a.m. Saturday after deputies responded to a domestic violence call at Bridgewater Banquet Facility on Sawmill Parkway in Delaware County, according to a sheriff's office news release.

Witnesses and Robinette's husband told deputies that he and his wife were having an argument and that she struck him multiple times and then locked herself in the car. He also told them that his wife was intoxicated following a wedding they attended and started the dispute, the sheriff's office said in the news release.

The deputies said Mrs. Robinette began yelling profanities when they approached the vehicle and refused to get out. She then informed them she was a breast-feeding mother, removed her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk, Sheriff Walter L. Davis, III said in the news release.

Deputies removed Robinette from the vehicle and arrested her. She was taken to Delaware County jail.

She faces charges of domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Domestic violence and assault are both first-degree misdemeanors. Obstructing official business and resisting arrest are second-degree misdemeanors and disorderly conduct is a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

First-degree misdemeanors carry a maximum sentence of 180 days in jail and a maximum fine of $1,000.

Robinette pleaded not guilty to all five charges during her arraignment at Delaware County Municipal Court today.

She was released from the jail on her own recognizance under the conditions that she have no contact with her husband and that she report to the probation department for a mental-health assessment, according to a court official.

During her court appearance, Mrs. Robinette said she is a teacher, WBNS-TV (Channel 10) reported. State records show she teaches at Summit Academy on Columbus' East Side. The school's website says Mrs. Robinette, who has a master's degree, taught second and third grades at the school in the 2010-11 school year. The school specializes in helping children with autism, ADHD and other disorders.

Teachers who are found guilty of certain offenses could face losing their teaching licenses.

No one answered the phone at the Robinettes' home.

Further investigation into the case could lead to additional charges, including harassment with a bodily substance, Davis said in the release.

"Many factors go into this, including whether deputies were actually hit with the breast milk," Davis said.

State law prohibits the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a law enforcement officer with blood, semen, urine, feces or another bodily substance.

The fifth-degree felony carries a maximum sentence of 12 months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.

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