Court records show DUI suspect Garland failed multiple drug tests while on bail

GARLAND, Texas – Court records show that a man failed three drug tests while on bail for allegedly causing a fatal accident in Garland while drunk and high.

His lawyer asked the judge to soften his bail. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Friday.

Jeremy Spencer remains on bail after Garland police said he caused the crash that killed 13-year-old Brooklyn Moran in September.

Court documents show that the Dallas County District Attorney’s office repeatedly filed motions to have Spencer’s bail declared insufficient due to failed drug tests. This could send Spencer back to jail.

Instead, Judge Andrew Kupper has only added more drug tests and an electronic ankle monitor with a curfew so far.

Brooklyn dreamed of playing football at the highest level, but a suspected drunk driver killed her and her dreams.

“I don’t even remember being hit,” recalled her mother Britney Moran. “And then the next thing I remember, I wake up in the hospital, like four or five days later, and I don’t even know that I had an accident.”

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Britney was driving a teenager and her friend last September. According to an arrest affidavit, Spencer admitted to Garland police that he “fell asleep at the wheel” and crashed head-on into the Moran’s car.

Investigators believe that Spencer was drunk or high, or both. He has been charged with manslaughter and assault while intoxicated.

Britney was so badly injured that she was tied to a stretcher at her child’s funeral.

“They were so bad that every doctor who saw me told me that I should have died,” she said.

According to an affidavit at the time of his arrest, Spencer did not have a valid driver’s license. But for unknown reasons, the court allowed the use of a locking device for the car he drives as a condition of bail.

The blocking device allows someone to drive the car if no alcohol is detected in their exhaled air.

“I don’t think he should be on bail at all,” Brooklyn’s father David Moran said.

Spencer’s bond conditions also required him not to use drugs and to wear a bandage that detects drug use by sweat and to undergo a random urine test. But court records show he failed three doping tests for “meth and cocaine.” However, he stays connected.

In fact, Spencer’s attorney asked the judge to revoke the random testing order and remove the drug patch, arguing that he had not failed a drug test since November. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

For now, the Brooklyn family is reflecting on their youngest of four children, who never had the chance to grow into the person she wanted to be.

“She never made anyone feel like an outsider,” David said. “She would definitely forgive him, but she would like him to at least have some consequences for his actions.”

In 2021, Spencer was convicted of driving under the influence and resisting arrest in Collin County. For this crime, he served a prison sentence and probation.

FOX 4 reached out to Spencer’s attorney for comment but received no response.