Kendall Batchelor, the 22-year-old charged with intoxicated manslaughter earlier this month, was arrested again last Friday for violating her bond conditions.
Batchelor was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Jail on June 6 on a warrant signed by Kendall County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Debby Hudson, which alleges Batchelor had a blood-alcohol level of .166 – more than double the legal limit – when she drove into oncoming traffic east of Boerne on Highway 46 at 9:50 p.m. June 2, hitting Boerne resident David John Belter’s vehicle head on. Belter was pronounced dead at the scene.
Batchelor initially was booked into the Bexar County Jail from her hospital room earlier this month before being transferred to the jail upon medical release. And, although Hudson’s warrant was marked “no bond,” a magistrate judge out of Bexar County released Batchelor on a $120,000 bail, records show.
However, she remained out of jail for only two weeks. Batchelor was arrested again in Kendall County by local deputies after a motion to revoke her bond was filed by the director of Kendall County pretrial services. According to an exhibit attached to the motion, Batchelor failed to comply with her bond condi tions by missing six testing windows between June 21 and June 22 for an in-home breathalyzer system.
The motion was filed June 23, and 451st District Court Judge Kirsten Cohoon signed the order revoking Batchelor’s bond by 2:53 p.m. June 24. It didn’t’ take long for deputies to catch up with the subject as Batchelor was booked into the county jail by 6:51 p.m.
Because she violated her bond conditions, Batchelor will remain in custody at the county jail unless her defense attorney files for a hearing before Cohoon to reinstate a bond, information stated. As of The Star’s Friday press deadline, no filings have been received in the 451st District Court, and Batchelor remains in custody.
This is Batchelor’s second driving while intoxicated offense in Kendall County as she was convicted of a Class A misdemeanor for DWI in 2019 after a 2018 arrest, records show. An accident in December 2021 resulted in an initial DWI charge, but it was reduced to two Class B misdemeanors of failure to perform duty on striking an unattended vehicle. The Kendall County District Attorney’s Office rejected the DWI charge because of insufficient evidence.
Batchelor’s intoxicated manslaughter charge has not been sent to the DA’s office as law enforcement is still investigating, information stated. So, the charges have not been before a grand jury.
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