A former Texas City commissioner has been arrested for driving while intoxicated while she was already on probation for her role in a 2017 vehicular crash that left a father and son dead.
Dee Ann Haney, 61, was arrested at around 4 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 27 and charged with driving while intoxicated. Her bond was set at 100,000.
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Court documents show that authorities with the Texas City Police Department were first alerted to Haney’s vehicle by a witness who claimed Haney was driving erratically and had slurred speech. When they made contact with Haney, she said that she had been attacked by three unknown individuals near a park. However, the witness said she saw Haney outside her car, rolling on the ground and screaming with nobody else present prior to her report.
TCPD officials then asked Haney if she had anything in her system, and she told them she had taken her daily medications—but not her nightly dose— along with one beer and one shot earlier in the night. Police said they also observed that her breath smelled of alcohol and she had slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and poor balance.
After refusing to use a breathalyzer, Haney was arrested.
Haney was on probation after she was convicted of two counts of criminal negligent homicide earlier this year. Back in July of 2017, she hit 58-year-old Van Duoc Le and his son, 33-year-old Hong Phuc Le, with her car while they were on the side of the road on Interstate 45, killing them both.
After that collision, court records say she admitted to a DPS trooper that she had smoked marijuana in the hours before the wreck. She wasn’t charged with being intoxicated in that case, but there was enough evidence for her to be charged criminally in the deaths of the two men.
This most recent arrest could lead to her probation in the homicide cases being revoked.