By Samantha Smith

Two women were arrested in separate DWI incidents last weekend where children were passengers in the vehicle. 

On April 9, Buda Police arrested Samantha Lyn Ingram, 26, following a hit-and-run incident with an unoccupied black Mazda truck in the 300 block of Tobin Drive. 

Ingram was arrested and charged with multiple offenses, including driving while intoxicated with a child less than 15 years of age in the vehicle, and duty on striking unintended vehicle. 

Ingram is currently being held at the Hays County Jail on bonds totaling $17,500. 

According to an arrest affidavit, Ingram told officers that she had consumed an alcoholic beverage before operating her vehicle. She also failed all standardized field sobriety tests that were administered. 

Ingram had two children in the vehicle at the time of the collision under the age of 15. The ages of the children in the vehicle were not released in the arresting affidavit.

On April 10, Kyle Police arrested Monica Garcia, 44, of Corpus Christi, after other drivers reported her driving erratically on Interstate 35. 

Garcia was booked on one charge of driving while intoxicated with a child less than 15 years of age, three counts of abandon/imminent endangerment of a child, and one count of possession of a controlled substance.

According to the arresting affidavit, a caller described to police a burgundy van failing to maintain a single lane. The van was speeding, swerving, and slamming on the brakes almost hitting the caller on multiple occasions.

Police stopped Garcia at mile marker 218, where she informed them she had taken allergy medication and Xanax around 11 a.m. that day. 

Garcia had four people, ages 4, 9, 11 and 26, in the vehicle with her at the time of the incident. 

According to the affidavit, police searched Garica’s purse and found pills identified as Tramadol, which is a controlled substance.