A 25-year-old Georgia lady is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning on an indictment charging her with driving drunk and killing a Louisiana Army Nationwide Guardsman in McAllen final 12 months.
Bianca Farmer is charged with intoxication manslaughter for the dying of Spc. Nashyra S. Whitaker, 23, and intoxication assault with a car inflicting critical bodily damage for Claude Cecil Berry, whose arm wanted to be amputated following the crash.
After the crash, the Army Occasions reported that each Farmer and Berry have been with the Georgia Nationwide Guard and that they and Whitaker have been within the Rio Grande Valley as a result of they have been assigned to a federalized Nationwide Guard border mission.
The crash occurred at 2:24 a.m. on Sept. 5, 2021 within the 100 block of North twenty third Avenue the place McAllen police discovered a silver Ford F-150 with main injury to its entrance left facet close to a picket pole with particles on the roadway, based on a possible trigger affidavit.
Responding officers spoke with Bianca and smelled a powerful odor of alcohol from Farmer, who advised police she solely had one drink at “The Gallery” within the downtown bar district, based on the affidavit, which stated she advised police she was driving to a Hampton Inn resort when the crash occurred.
“Mrs. Farmer (stated) that she had been touring northbound on twenty third avenue when somebody lower her off which brought on her to swerve,” the affidavit acknowledged.
She bonded out of the Hidalgo County Grownup Detention Heart on Sept. 8, 2021, on a complete of $190,000 in bonds.
Her standing with the Georgia Nationwide Guard was not instantly clear as of Saturday morning.
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