Eric Sauls, 45, is being held in the this morning, without bond, after being arrested Monday. Sauls is charged with influencing a witness and subornation of perjury related to the civil litigation involving the death of his daughter, vehicular homicide victim Cheyenne Sauls, according to the Sheriff's Facebook Page.
Sauls is accused of offering a witness in the case a sum of money to provide false testimony in the upcoming civil case. Sauls was arrested at his home in Villa Rica without incident. The investigation was conducted by Sgt. Mike Howell.
Cheyenne Sauls, 16 of Villa Rica, was killed when she was thrown from a vehicle in a car crash on Pleasant Drive, near Bright Star Rd. in Douglas County in Feb. of 2011.
at least the next nine years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide and two counts of causing serious injury by vehicle for supplying alcohol to minors.
Willis was the source of the alcohol consumed by Jason Lark. Lark was in the driver of the . Sauls was a passenger in the vehicle. Lark was driving the group between drinking parties.
Cheyenne was a 17 year old girl, who just like anyone else, made a mistake that night. And Eric(her father) knows just as well as everyone else that Cheyenne could have chose not to get in the car, but she did. But at the same time. The death of his baby girl isn't easy to just let it roll off his chest. Lessons need to be learned. Jason needs to learn his lesson about Drinking and Driving, and Cheyenne's death is a lesson to everyone who knew her, that its not okay to get in the car with a drunk driver. We miss that girl LIKE CRAZY! And many of us have learned a lesson. Parents won't always know exactly where their kids are 24/7, and you know that. Don't think that your child doesn't lie sometimes about where she may be. We all do it. That night was a mistake, but it DOES NOT make Eric, nor Debbie a bad parent. And you need to understand that. So maybe he messed up with what he did, but the agony of losing his baby girl wasn't easy to control, and you would do whatever it took to have justic if it was your baby girl. Just remember that. Eric is not a bad man by NO MEANS. But he is broken by the loss of Cheyenne.. just like everyone else, even worse though. Remember, you can't judge a book by its cover.. and you can't judge how he should act after losing his daughter, because it hasn't happen to you.
Without question, I feel for the man, but it doesn't excuse this felonious actions after his daughter's death. Most of us light a candle or find SOME way to try and cope with such a horrible loss. We don't go out and dishonor our child's memory. Hannah, do yourself a favor and don't assume that you know what pain that I have or have not been through. Just so you know, I am reminded daily that the pain of losing my child will never fade.