Gritts v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The appellant, Randall Gritts, appeals his DWI conviction on the ground that a police officer employed by Fairfield Bay, a planned community, who was also a deputy sheriff of Van Burén County, had no jurisdiction to arrest him in an area within the county but outside the community. We hold that the arrest was valid and affirm the trial court.

The Fairfield Bay Department of Public Safety (FBDPS) received a telephone call that a car was stopped on Highway 330 in Van Burén County and that the driver appeared to be asleep. Officer Gray, a police officer with FBDPS…