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A North Texas school district is hailing the quick thinking and heroism of a bus driver that saved a scared student from a man that was later discovered to be wanted in a sexual assault case, NBC DFW reports. Garland ISD honored Reva, who has driven with the district for 16 years, on Tuesday May 30.
Reva said the quick thinking was “a God thing, he planned it from the get-go, me being on time, me getting there” on the morning of May 18. She said that when the bus pulled up at a middle school stop, a man reportedly pulled up too, and Reva said she noticed a young student running toward the bus.
“My gut feeling was telling me something was not right,” Reva said. “This guy was hanging out all the way out his car window trying to get her attention. And whatever he was saying to her, frightened her.”
Luckily, Reva was able to get the student onto the bus safely, after which the student told her the man was making her uncomfortable and that he attempted to lure her into his vehicle, the district told NBC DFW. She called police and reportedly spotted the driver a short time later, spurning Reva into action.
“As I turned left to go down the street, I really realized that he was going to come out on the street where I was again,” Reva said. “So I pulled my bus down there and kind of blocked the intersection where he was to possibly make him go around in front of me so I could get his rear license plate.”
Reva was able to successfully capture the car’s license plate using the bus camera and reported the driver to police. Garland Police identified the driver as Jonathan Haung Trinh, 39, who was wanted in Richardson for indecent assault after allegedly groping a woman in a coffee shop a day before, NBC DFW reports.
Trinh was arrested on May 19 and remains in the Dallas County Jail, at the time of writing, on charges of sexual assault, indecent assault, forgery, and fraudulent use of identifying information. His bond is set at just over $100,000.
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