Theft Investigation Resulted In 3 Controlled Substance Arrests
A theft investigation resulted in three controlled substance arrests Thursday.
Sulphur Springs Police Department Special Crimes Sgt. Joe Scott and Lt. Mark Estes responded in the 100 block of Nicholson Street to assisted detectives who were investigating a report that stolen property could be potentially located in the area.
Upon arrival Thursday morning, SCU investigators encountered Ismael Gonzales, who was reportedly inside his pickup. Officers spoke to Gonzales about their reason for being in the area. He agreed to a body search. A dollar bill containing a crystal-like substance the officers believed was methamphetamine was allegedly found in his watch pocket. The money was placed on the side step of the truck while Gonzales was being placed into handcuffs, the SCU officers alleged in arrest reports.
(HCSO jail photo)
When ordered to the back of his truck, Gonzales reportedly began pulling away from the investigators and grabbed the dollar bill, dumping all of the suspected meth inside of it onto the road. Officers reported forcing the man against the truck and removed the money from his hand. Estes was able to recover some of the substance from the road. The 43-year-old Sulphur Springs man was taken into custody at 9:05 a.m. September 3 on possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence charge, according to arrest reports.
Around 3:15 p.m., officers responded at a residence in the 100 block of Nicholson Street, again assisting in a theft investigation. Scott obtained permission from 56-year-old Terry Kay Coplin to search the residence. Two bags containing suspect methamphetamine were found during the search. The suspected meth and packaging weighed 3.6 grams, the SCU officers alleged in arrest reports.
Terry Kay Coplin
Coplin and her “roommate/boyfriend,” identified in arrest reports as 48-year-old Meliton Medina-Tuirubiates, were both arrested just before 4 p.m. for possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance.
KSSTRadio.com publishes Sulphur Springs Police Department reports and news. The Police Department is located at 125 Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Texas. Non-emergency calls can be made to (903) 885-7602.
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The Sulphur Springs Police Department continues to serve its citizens with pride in its overall mission and will strive to provide the best possible police force in the 21st century.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
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 beside of him call out to the Sulphur Springs man, asking for some of the alcohol. Sheets alleged seeing the man hand the minor a can of the Steel Reserve, then seeing the minor pour himself a glass of the alcohol.
When Sheets contacted the adult and minor, the adult allegedly “tried saying that the minor was pouring a drink for him,” Sheet wrote in arrest reports. Sheets reported pouring out the drink and the alcohol remaining in the can. He alleged the 64-year-old refused to obey multiple commands given to him by the investigator and was taken into custody and jailed for furnishing alcohol to a minor. The minors in the vehicle left once the 64-year-old was in custody, Sheets noted in arrest reports.
The 64-year-old Sulphur Springs man was released from Hopkins County jail Thursday, September 3, on a $2,000 bond on the Class A misdemeanor purchasing/furnishing alcohol to a minor charge, according to jail reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
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.
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, which she was on for a credit or debit card abuse charge. The violation was alleged in arrest reports to have occurred July 30, 2020.
Petrea was also charged Sept. 2 on an outstanding no driver’s license warrant. She remained in Hopkins County jail Sept. 3 on both charges, according to jail reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
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.
The sheriff’s investigators reported contacting Rachael Marie Joslin at her residence after receiving information the woman shook her baby. Joslin allegedly admitted to being frustrated while feeding the baby about a month ago and shaking the child twice while at a Helm Lane address. She admitted the baby’s head moved forward, back, forward and back again at the time, the sheriff’s investigators alleged in arrest reports.
The woman was taken into custody at 10:45 a.m. Sept. 2 at her residence and transported to Hopkins County jail on the third-degree felony child endangerment charge. She remained in the county jail Sept. 3, according to jail reports.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Sulphur Springs Man Arrested On Sexual Assault Of A Child Charge
A 23-year-old Sulphur Springs man was arrested Sept. 2 on a sexual assault of a child charge, according to police reports.
Chasen Lane Beaver was taken into custody at 9:48 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. at Sulphur Springs Police Department, after he “admitted to having sexual intercourse and performing oral sex on” a 16-year-old female on or about July 15, 2020, at a Duckworth Street address, SSPD Det. Sgt. David Gilmore alleged in arrest reports.
Beaver was released from Hopkins County jail on Thursday, Sept. 3. The 23-year-old Sulphur Springs man’s bond was set at $25,000 on the second-degree felony sexual assault of a child charge, according to jail reports.
KSSTRadio.com publishes Sulphur Springs Police Department reports and news. The Police Department is located at 125 Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Texas. Non-emergency calls can be made to (903) 885-7602.
If you have an emergency dial 9-1-1.
The Sulphur Springs Police Department continues to serve its citizens with pride in its overall mission and will strive to provide the best possible police force in the 21st century.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Channel 18 Marks 30th Anniversary
Channel 18 has been there for all of the community events, happenings and special occasions. Today, the station marks a milestone of its own — the station’s 30th anniversary of operation.
The brainchild of Dwayne and Kelly Bradford Grimes, Channel 18’s official ribbon cutting was Sept. 3, 1990.
The station was created with the purpose of keeping Sulphur Springs informed of everything that was going on, everything that people needed to know, and continued to expand.
Channel 18 has continued to be your hometown station, documenting the events and news of Hopkins County as it develops. Featured local programming has included news, sports and weather events as they developed. For more than 25 years, Channel 18 carried educational and religious programming.
Bill Bradford, in addition to his news reports, made keeping the community informed of major weather events as they are developing a tradition.
In the early days, Peavine Pinion had a daily hunting and fishing show on Channel 18.
Bradford hosted an annual Halloween Costume event at Brookshire’s, assisted in the beginning by Jim Thompson, then, by KSST Morning Show host Enola Gay Mathews.
Initially, live broadcasts were only conducted at the studio. One of the first was the Symphony League’s radio/TV auction, held each year in the Channel 18 studio and is planned for November 2020.
Wildcat football games have been carried on Channel 18 all 30 years, with plans to do the same for the 2020 season with videographer Doug Haston and Sports Director Don Julian. The station now has the capabilities of doing live-stream games.
Channel 18 TV has also served the community by hosting live political forums, provided a live format for local residents and voters to call in and ask officials questions about topics on election ballots such as construction of a new library in the 600 block of Davis St. and Coleman Park. Some of the fun coverages have included interviews with youth players on summer ball teams, 4H Club events, elementary school assemblies and colorful segments of life in Hopkins County.
When Channel 18 was not live, pages would show obits, birthdays, anniversaries, lost animals and other community announcements.
Programs have been recorded on more than one medium, first on S-VHS, and changing with improvements in technology, including on DVDs and digital mini cassettes.
Channel 18 has had four news directors, who also served as sports announcers. The original news director was Cecil Savage. Jimmy Rogers and Don Julian are also among the news directors. Doug Haston has been with Channel 18 almost from the beginning; he was hired within a week of the station’s launch on a part time basis, but within a short time was hired full time as videographer.
Bill and Patsy Bradford bought out all other partners for KSST and Channel 18 in the mid-1990s. He continued as owner/operator until his death on Dec. 9, 2013. Dwayne and Kelly Bradford Grimes continued to operate Channel 18 and KSST for a short time after Bradford’s death.
In June 2014, Chad and Rhonda Young announced their intent to purchase both KSST Radio and Channel 18 TV station, pending FCC approval. They recently added KRVA-FM to the studio property as well.
Suddenlink Cable subscribers in Sulphur Springs and Como are viewers of Channel 18 TV. The 30th anniversary is being observed with the replaying of the 1990 ribbon cutting on Channel 18 today (Sept. 3, 2020).
Genealogical Fall Seminar To Be Offered Virtually and In-Person on September 19
Due to popular request, the day-long Genealogical Research Seminar to be presented by John Sellers on Saturday September 19, 2020 now has an added dimension to accommodate everyone interested in attending. The Seminar, a project of the Hopkins County Genealogical Society, has been expanded from an in-person setting to also include a virtual setting. Four topics to hone your researching skills will be covered, between 8:30am and 3:30Pm, with free time for lunch from 11:30am til 1pm.
A NOTE FROM ORGANIZERS: For those of you wishing to attend virtually, we will send a link to you via email on Friday, September 18, 2020, so that you can view and hear everything on your computer. Also attached to that email with the Zoom sign-in link will be the course syllabus. Cost of the seminar, whether in person or virtual, is $30.00, and virtual registration will end at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 17, 2020, so that we can send out the necessary sign-in email the next day. Please contact us at [email protected].
Registration for attending in person can be done up until the start of the first session, provided there is space available – we have to limit the number of attendees for social distancing, and attendees will need to wear masks.
Session topics are:
1. Researching Your Ancestors’ Plot of Dirt: The Adventures of Courthouse Land Research
2. What Do You Mean it Burned? Is All Your research Up in Smoke?
3. Women,That Gender You Can’t Do Without In Your Research
4. I Got a Match, What Now?
Cost to attend is $30 person whether in-person or on Zoom.
The seminar will be held inside the Winniford Building inside the Hopkins County Heritage Park, located at 416 Jackson Street. Registration can be done through the Hopkins County Genealogical Society Research Library by phone at 903-885-8523 or at [email protected]. Checks may be mailed to Hopkins County Genealogical Society Fall Seminar at P.O. Box 624, Sulphur Springs Tx. 75483.
John Sellers, a fifth-generation native of Hopkins County has been featured speaker at more than 60 all-day seminars located in Texas, Louisiana,Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
4 Men, 1 Woman Jailed On Controlled Substance, Related Charges
At last five people, four men and 1 woman, have been jailed over the last 3 day on controlled substance or related charges, according to arrest and jail reports.
Lamar County Warrant Arrest
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Osornio contacted the occupants of a GMC Sierra 1500 early Monday morning, August 31, on Mulberry Street at Houston Street. A records check showed 21-year-old Heston Blaze Golightly of Sulphur Springs to be wanted in Lamar County, according to arrest reports. Deputy Nick Marney assisted with the traffic stop.
Golightly was taken into custody at 1:03 a.m. August 31 and jailed on the warrant for violation of probation, which he was on for a possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance; the offense, according to arrest reports, was alleged to have occurred on August 27, 2020. The truck was reportedly released by Golightly to a female passenger. He was released from Hopkins County jail later August 31.
Arkansas Warrant Arrest
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office was alerted that Divante Dvon Marbray was in custody at Dallas County jail in Arkansas on a Hopkins county warrant. Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Fordyce, Arkansas, where he took Marbray into custody at 10:30 a.m. August 31, 2020.
Fite transported the 26-year-old El Dorado, Arkansas man to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked for violation of probation, which he was on for a 2018 possession of less than 2 gram of a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance. Marbray remained in Hopkins County jail September 2 on the felony charge.
Interstate 30 Methamphetamine Arrest
Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Britain Marlow reported stopping a Chevrolet Avalanche just before 7:30 p.m. August 31, on Interstate 30 at mile marker 127, for driving 80 miles per hour in a 75 mph speed zone.
The other occupants of the blue pickup reportedly kept talking to the trooper while he was trying to talk to the driver, so he asked the driver to step out of the truck so he could speak without interruption. The driver complied.
As he did, Marlow alleged seeing a baggy containing a crystal-like substance in the 18-year’s seat. Consequently, 18-year-old Gage Michell Cogswell of Eaton Rapids, Michigan was detained, and after admitting the substance was methamphetamine was arrested for possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance. Cogswell was issued a warning for the speeding violation.
Cogswell remained in Hopkins County jail September 2. Bond was set at $5,000 on the felony controlled substance charge.
Bond Revocation Arrest
Sarah Michelle Cline, 19, of Winnsboro turned herself in at 10:51 a.m. September 1 in the lobby at the sheriff’s office and was escorted into Hopkins County jail by Investigator Dennis Findley.
Cline was booked for bond revocation on manufacture or delivery of 4 grams or more but less than 400 grams of a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 2 controlled substance charges.
She was on bond for the March 10, 2020 controlled substance charges; she allegedly arranged to sell Ecstasy online via a social media platform, then got caught attempting to deliver 8.5 grams of MDM. She also allegedly had 3.6 grams more of the substance, sheriff’s deputies alleged in the March arrest reports.
Cline remained in Hopkins County jail September 2.
Bond Forfeiture Arrest
HCSO Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Edinburg, where Don Cornelius Aubrey was being housed at Segovia Unit. Fite transported Aubrey to Hopkins County jail on September 1. The 50-year-old Paris man was booked into Hopkins County jail for bond forfeiture on a tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair charge.
The original tampering with evidence offense, according to arrest and jail reports, occurred on May 31, 2017. Aubrey remained in Hopkins County jail on September 2, 2020.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Three Men Jailed in Hopkins County On Assault Charges
September 2, 2020 – Three men were jailed in Hopkins County from August 28 – September 1 on assault charges, two on felony offenses and one on a misdemeanor charge, according to arrest and sheriff’s reports.
A 59-year-old Saltillo man was taken into custody at 10 a.m. September 1 at his Saltillo residence by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shea Shaw and day shift deputies on warrant. Calvin Roy Helton was booked into Hopkins County jail on the aggravated assault of a date, family or household member with a deadly weapon warrant. The offense, according to arrest reports occurred on August 28 at a County Road 3432 residence.
Helton remained in Hopkins County jail Wednesday, September 2. Bond on the charge was set at $100,000.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Cpl. Todd Evans, Sgt. Richard Greer and Investigator Dennis Findley located Loren Lance Horner, who they knew to have an outstanding warrant for his arrest, in the front yard of a County Road 2215 residence at 11:07 a.m. August 28. The 36-year-old Sulphur Springs man was taken into custody and jailed on the outstanding family violence assault impending breathing charge. The offense, according to arrest reports, occurred on August 20, 2020.
Horner was released from jail August 29 on a $30,000 bond on the felony warrant.
A 50-year-old Sulphur Springs man was arrested by police at 11:14 p.m. August 28, at his Helm Lane residence on a Class A misdemeanor family violence assault causing bodily injury charge, according to arrest reports. He was accused of assaulting his wife, who was wearing a shirt that appeared to have been torn and had redness on her back, police alleged in arrest reports.
The Sulphur Springs man was released from Hopkins County jail Aug. 31 on a $2,000 bond.
If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1
The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office is located at 298 Rosemont Sulphur Springs, TX 75482. You can reach them for non-emergency matters at (903) 438-4040.
Hopkins County Sept. 2 COVID-19 Update: 3 New Positive Cases, 47 Active Cases
Hopkins County/Sulphur Springs Emergency Management officials reported 3 new positive COVID-19 cases, increasing the total of active cases to 47. No new recoveries were reported by the emergency management team during the Hopkins County Sept. 2 COVID-19 update.
The cumulative total of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in midMarch is 249, including 202 Hopkins County residents who have recovered from coronavirus.
Four patients were reported to be in the COVID-19 unit at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital-Sulphur Springs, two less than on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
The emergency management officials reported 25 additional COVID-19 tests were conducted Sept. 1, for a total of 573 free tests conducted on-site at Hopkins County Regional Civic Center from Aug. 20-5 p.m. Sept. 1. Testing at the site ended at 5 p.m. Sept. 2. Anyone looking for a COVID-19 testing site should contact their physician for advisement or go online to GoGetTested.com to see locations outside of Hopkins County where free testing is being offered.
No new COVID-19 deaths were assigned to Hopkins County on the Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 Case Counts and County Trends reports on Sept. 2.
Texas Health and Human Services reported no active cases among the five child care centers listed for Hopkins County as of Sept. 1.
There have been no reports of COVID-19 resident cases at local nursing homes and no active cases among staff as of Aug. 19, according to HHS.
Only one assisted living facility in Sulphur Springs continued to report 6 active resident cases, 1 resident recovery and three employee recoveries as of Aug. 19, according to the HHS report.
