This story has been updated throughout.

Conflicting accounts have emerged after the winner of the 2016 Miss Black Texas pageant said she was arrested Saturday and spent the night in jail after refusing to apologize to the Commerce police chief following a driving dispute.

Carmen Ponder, a 23-year-old pre-law student at Texas A&M University-Commerce, originally believed the man involved in the "road rage" incident was Chief Kerry Crews, but she now acknowledges that it might be a case of mistaken identity, her attorney said Friday.

Carmen Ponder (via Facebook)

According to a news release from the City of Commerce, many of the statements made about the incident do not line up with the statement given by Crews.

City officials said that Crews has been placed on routine paid administrative leave while a third party investigation is conducted by Fort Worth law firm Lynn Ross & Gannaway.

Crews could not be reached for comment, but the chief told KXAS-TV (NBC5) that his attorneys advised him not to speak at this time.

The release says that Crews had been shopping at Wal-Mart when he became involved after two motorists got into a dispute in the parking lot. One motorist "failed to comply with [Crews'] requests." That person was subsequently arrested for "evading arrest or detention."

But Ponder gave a different account in a statement she shared Tuesday on Twitter.

She said she was driving to a Wal-Mart in Commerce on Saturday when she was cut off by a black truck that was driving erratically.

After watching the truck drift in and out of the lane and make several abrupt stops, she said, she thought it might be a drunken driver, so she signaled and went around the truck before turning into the store's parking lot.

As she was about to head into the store, the truck pulled up next to her. The man got out and started to yell profanities, Ponder said.

She said he yelled that he was teaching his 14-year-old daughter how to drive and that she shouldn't have driven around them.

Ponder said she told him it was illegal for a 14-year-old to be driving, and she proceeded to walk toward the store when she heard the man say, "Oh whatever, you black [expletive]."

Chief Kerry Crews (Commerce Police Department)

When she came back out of the store, she said, she was approached by an officer in plain clothes who showed his badge and yelled at her, saying that the man she had upset was his chief and that she had better apologize.

Ponder said she declined and started to walk to her car when the officer grabbed her arm and told her she was being detained. She then used her cellphone to call 911.

Other officers arrived and were told by the officer in plain clothes that she had been evading arrest. She said she was then handcuffed and taken into custody, where she was held for 24 hours and charged with evading arrest.

Attorney Lee Merritt,who is representing Ponder, said she has acknowledged that it's possible Crews was not the man in the truck who verbally assaulted her. But Merritt said Crews was at the scene and they believe the actions of the Commerce Police Department in responding to the incident show a "clear abuse of authority and violations of Ms. Ponder's civil rights."

Merritt said they are calling for the charges to be dropped against her and for those involved to be appropriately punished.

Staff writer Tom Steele contributed to this report.