Man Eluded Cumby Police In Vehicle With Stolen License Plate
A 39-year-old Cumby man eluded Cumby Police Friday afternoon in vehicle with a stolen license plate, according to arrest reports. No HCSO jail photo available for Wesallen Rogers Cumby Police Officer A. Gonzalez attempted to stop a southbound blue Mazda at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 4 on FM 275 for not having a front license plate. Instead of stopping when the officer activated the red and blue lights on his patrol vehicle, however, the driver...
Inmate At Hopkins County Jail Accused Of Assaulting Corrections Officer
An inmate at Hopkins County jail was accused of assaulting a corrections officer Friday afternoon. The incident isn’t the first time 23-year-old Jakwaviane Kentrail Goodson has been accused of assault while in custody at Hopkins County Law Enforcement Center. Jakwaviane Kentrail Goodson (HCSO jail photo) Jail staff at 3:50 p.m. Sept. 4 alleged Goodson engaged in a physical altercation with and assaulted a corrections officer,...
Coronavirus Case Reported At North Hopkins ISD
All 7 School District In Hopkins County Have Now Reported COVID-19 Cases Since School Started The first coronavirus case has been reported at North Hopkins ISD. Until Saturday, the district was the only one in Hopkins County that had not had any confirmed COVID-19 cases. Several other school have reported additional COVID-19 cases this week as well. District and local health officials work together as soon as they are notified to...
Hopkins County COVID-19 Sept. 4 Update: 1 Additional Death, 3 New Cases, 29 Positive Antigen Results
Hopkins County Emergency Management officials reported they’d received notification in the last 48 hours of 3 new positive COVID-19 cases, bumping the number of active COVID-19 cases in Hopkins County to 50 on Sept. 4. That’s 9 new cases reported so far in September and 12 new cases reported this week. That’s less than half the number of cases reported during the first 4 days of August but two man than on July 4. The...
Woman Sent To Tyler Hospital Following Davis Street Crash
A Sulphur Springs woman was reported to have been transferred to a Tyler hospital Wednesday, following a crash on Davis Street. According to Sulphur Springs Police, the woman was traveling in the 600 block of South Davis Street Sept. 2 when her vehicle went into oncoming traffic, struck a utility pole, breaking it and damaging power lines, some of which fell on the vehicle. Sulphur Springs Police and Fire Departments, along with...
Man Stopped For Speeding, Arrested On DWI Charge
An Arkansas man stopped for speeding Thursday morning on Interstate 30 claimed he needed to use the restroom, according to arrest reports. The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper, who stopped the man for traveling 100 miles per hour in the 75 mph speed zone near the 128 mile marker on I-30 west at shortly before noon Sept. 3, allowed the man to use the restroom in an adjacent motel before conversing further with him. While...
Advantage Copy Systems Acquired By Datamax
Advantage Copy Systems, a Sulphur Springs business that provides office machines and copier-related consumer products, has been acquired by Datamax, which provides office equipment and technology solutions in Arkansas and Texas. Advantage was established as a Canon dealer in 1992. In 2006, Sulphur Springs residents Dan and Paula Brown purchased the company. Datamax Inc. President Barry Simon, in a release earlier this week,...
64-Year-Old Caught Giving Beer To A Minor In Front Of A Sheriff’s Investigator
A 64-year-old was allegedly caught giving beer to a minor in front of a sheriff’s investigator around lunch time Tuesday, according to arrest reports. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Wade Sheets was in the parking lot of a College Street gas station at 11:50 a.m. September 2, when the 64-year-old walked out of the store with 4 cans of Steel Reserve. The investigator reported witnessing a minor in the vehicle...
Rural Sulphur Springs Resident Arrested On Felony Warrant
A rural Sulphur Springs resident was arrested on a felony warrant Wednesday, according to jail and arrest reports. Harleah Irene Petrea (HCSO jail photo) Hopkins County Sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Greer located 22-year-old Harleah Irene Petrea at her residence and took her into custody at 4:36 p.m. Sept. 2. Greer transported her to Hopkins County jail, where she was booked in at 5:14 p.m. on the warrant for violation of probation,...
Mother Accused Of Shaking Her Baby
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Investigators Wade Sheets and Michael Russell arrested a 23-year-old Sulphur Springs woman Sept. 2 on an abandoning or endangering of a child-criminal negligence charge. The mother is accused of shaking her baby. No HCSO jail photo available for Rachael Marie Joslin The sheriff’s investigators reported contacting Rachael Marie Joslin at her residence after receiving information the woman...