A Howard County deputy was hurt and a De Queen man arrested on Thursday, Oct. 9 following an incident on Highway 371, according to Chief Deputy Joey Davis.
Davis reported that around 6 a.m. on Oct. 9, Deputy Todd Tallant responded to a report of a “vehicle ramming a car” on Highway 371. When the deputy arrived on the scene and was turning around to make contact with the victim, the suspect’s truck hit his police vehicle.
Deputy Tallant was transported to a Texarkana hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries and has since been released, according to Chief Deputy Davis.
The victim at the scene told officers that the suspect vehicle had rammed her and the driver had came back to the scene and “approached her car aggressively, making inappropriate sexual gestures and tried to talk her into getting into his truck.”
Davis reported that the suspect’s truck was found in the ditch a few miles up the road. Members of the Howard County Sheriff’s Department, the Nashville Police Department, the Arkansas State Police and the 9th West Drug Task Force began searching the area.
A short time later, Dylan Jared Cardoso, 26, of De Queen, was located a short distance from his truck and taken into custody.
Cardoso was initially housed in the Howard County Jail but has since been moved to the Pike County Jail. Charges are pending in the case, according to Davis.
