Crime & Safety
Aggressive Tow Truck Driver Charged With Aggravated Assault: Cops
Clinton Hudnall, 36, is accused of aggressively chasing a man he said was driving erratically, and trying to ram him with his tow truck.
CYPRESS, TX — A tow truck driver who allegedly chased a man through traffic and tried to hit the man's car with his truck, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
The incident happened Monday night on Spring-Cypress Road in northwest Harris County. The victim told deputy constables that he was aggressively followed by the tow truck driver, later identified as 36-year-old Clinton Hudnall.
The victim said Hudnall would at times drive into oncoming traffic at a high rate of speed, while following him. The man pulled into the HEB parking lot at Grant Road and Spring-Cypress Road and called deputies. During that time, Hudnall also tried to hit the man's car.
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Hudnall told deputies he was following a suspected drunk driver and had video from a dash camera in his vehicle.
However, when deputies checked, they learned there was no dash camera video, as Hudnall had claimed.
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The investigation also revealed that Hudnall had not tried to contact law enforcement about the so-called drunk driver.
Hudnall was arrested and booked into the Harris County jail, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond was set at $30,000 out of the 263rd District Court.
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