Trio arrested after driving into Kingwood La Quinta

by khou.com staff
khou.com
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:05 PM

KINGWOOD, Texas – A trio of drug suspects was arrested Monday after crashing their pickup truck into a La Quinta in Kingwood.
It happened at the hotel in the 22700 block of U.S. 59

Montgomery County Precinct 4 deputy constables said they were conducting a narcotics investigation when the three suspects showed up at the hotel in a stolen pickup truck for a drug transaction.

Marked patrol units converged on them as they pulled up, and one of the suspects exited the truck.

But investigators said the driver of the truck, 30-year-old Randy Lee Wilkerson, decided not to go quietly.
They said Wilkerson turned into a parking space, accelerated rapidly and smashed the truck into the outside wall of the hotel. The truck hit the wall with such force that it cracked the interior wall of an occupied room.
Wilkerson’s door was stuck, so he hopped over his passenger, 25-year-old Jason Michael Beyer, and took off on foot.

Officers chased him for about five blocks before they caught up with him. After a brief struggle, investigators said they were able to arrest Wilkerson.
Beyer and the third suspect, Paula Jaunette Pifer, 36, did not resist arrest.
Deputy constables said they searched the pickup and found a bag of methamphetamine inside. Another baggie of meth was found on the sidewalk, just outside the passenger-side door.

Wilkerson is charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, engaging in organized criminal activity, evading arrest with a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest.

Pifer, who was out on bond for an unrelated charge when she was arrested Monday, and Beyer are both charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance and engaging in organized criminal activity.
No one inside the hotel was injured.