2024-11-24
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - A woman who tried to run over an Amarillo police officer in a drug deal gone wrong will spend the next decade in prison.
Elizabeth Michelle Samayoa, 29, appeared in 47th District Court in Potter County to plead guilty to three counts of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Court documents show that Samayoa was involved in the drug trade. In January 2024, she contacted an undercover officer with Amarillo Police Department to let him know she was in Amarillo and had drugs for sale.
The undercover officer asked Samayoa to sell him a quarter ounce of methamphetamine.
Samayoa, 29, will spend 15 years in prison for trying to run over an undercover police officer on Valentine's Day 2024(Potter County Sheriff's Office)
Samayoa told him she did not have the full quarter ounce to sell him at the moment but agreed to sell him 21 grams for $75.
The undercover officer directed Samayoa to meet him at a gambling club where he was playing slots. She met him there and handed him “a bag of crystal substance” in exchange for payment.
The court documents state that a lab later analyzed the bag of drugs and determined the actual weight as 5.4 grams of methamphetamine.
The next month, Samayoa agreed to deliver a quarter ounce of methamphetamine to the undercover officer.
On Valentine’s Day 2024, Samayoa traveled to Amarillo and met the undercover officer in the parking lot of Sam’s Club on Ross-Osage Drive.
She instructed him to get in her car and became upset when he refused. The two argued briefly, then the undercover officer walked away from her car.
Samayoa became angry and drove her car in reverse towards the undercover officer, who had to “take evasive action” to avoid being hit.
After she put her car in drive and drove away, she was stopped by uniformed officers with Amarillo Police Department and arrested.
Police transported Samayoa to Potter County Detention Center where she was booked in on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and felony drug distribution.
She was released on a $40,000 bond.
In October, Crime Stoppers named Samayoa their Fugitive of the Week following a bond surrender and offered a reward for information leading to her whereabouts.
Authorities took her into custody three weeks later.
Last week, Samayoa appeared in court and pleaded guilty to the four offenses. District Judge Dee Johnson then sentenced her to the following:
- Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree felony, 13 years prison
- Man/Del controlled substance (less than 1 gram), state jail felony, 12 months state jail
- Man/Del controlled substance (>=4 grams <200 grams), first-degree felony, 15 years prison
- Man/Del controlled substance (>=4 grams <200 grams), first-degree felony, 15 years prison
She is currently in custody at Potter County Detention Center until her transfer to the prison system.
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