Winn Sentenced to 15 Months in TDJC
Thursday afternoon in 8th Judicial District Court, Daniel Winn, a former Criminal Investigator with the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to day-for-day 15 months in the Texas Department of Corrections. Winn was sentenced based on 7 counts of tampering with evidence which are state jail felonies. Appointed Special Prosecutor Gary Young of Lamar County and the court dropped 7 third degree felony counts. Winn’s...
Dumpster Diving Retrieves Credit Cards, ID Taken in Burglaries
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Criminal Investigators along with the assistance of an inmate recovered a number of credit cards and other personal information of local citizens who had been burglarized. It was an instance of dumpster diving in a retail trash container located behind a local outlet mall. The inmate, 18-year old Stephen Charles Gilreath, who reported the location of the stolen identification and credit cards, was given the...
Diver Recovers Weapon; Mother, Son Arrested
July 7, 2015 – A woman lost a purse from her car in an auto burglary and the credit cards taken from the purse were used at Walmart in Mineola. From surveillance video, Hopkins County sheriff’s officers were able to identify the individual using the cards. That arrest led officers to another individual, which will enable the clearing of all the remaining car burglaries that recently occurred in the county. Three different...
Second Arrest in Armed Robbery
Hopkins County Sheriff’s officers arrested a second man in connection with the armed holdup of a couple at Highway 11 West and County Road 4703 just before 3 a.m. Friday. Arrested were 20-year old Demetrius Shawn Williams and 18-year old Jason Floyd Koenig. Both men were charged with aggravated robbery before Justice of the Peace B. J. Teer. Teer set bond at $75,000 for each man
“Updated” Burglar Broke Down, Busted
Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputies found a vehicle reported stolen abandoned at County Road 1110 and County Road 1171. It had been taken from a County Road 1112 residence. Then a man drove up and told deputies his father’s truck had been stolen from a residence at County Road 1110 and County Road 1218. The description of the truck matched one that had been found on County Road 1100 East at FM 2653. A man seen near the...
“Updated” U S Marshal’s Service Take Lead in Mapps Arrest
“Good police work by the U S Marshal’s service,” said Sulphur Springs Police Detective Sgt. David Gilmore. Gilmore’s remarks were made Tuesday morning after his return to Sulphur Springs from Fort Smith, Arkansas where Tilton Isaiah Joshua Mapps had been arrested Monday afternoon at 1:45 p.m. for the murder of Johnathan Traehan Young. (See arrest story here.) Young died as the result of multiple gunshot...
Man Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Weapon
A 27-year old Sulphur Springs man was arrested after he reportedly struck his wife with fists and threatened her with a knife during a disturbance. Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputies were sent to a report of a disturbance on County Road 1190 at 2 p.m. Thursday. The woman told police her husband had struck her several times and held a knife to her throat. There were signs that the woman had been struck and had been nicked by the...
George and 25 Other Indictments Handed Down Monday
Thirty-two (32) indictments were handed down against 26 individuals by a Hopkins County Grand Jury Monday afternoon. The Grand Jury no billed/did not indict three (3) Sulphur Springs Police Officers and three (3) Hopkins County Sheriff’s jailors were no billed/not indicted for the death of Chance Ross (see story here). Gary Curtis George was indicted for an April 10th charge of online solicitation of a minor for sex. George was a...
All Law Enforement Officers No Billed by Grand Jury
Monday afternoon, June 22, a Hopkins County Grand Jury refused to indict six (6) law enforcement officers—three Sulphur Springs Police officers and three Hopkins County Sheriff’s jailers. A special prosecutor, Collin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirske presented the case to the Grand Jury. Monday after the decision of the Grand Jury, Wirske told KSST News that he had given the Chance Ross family every opportunity to present...
Employee Arrested for Taking Money From Cash Register
A 19-year old Sulphur Springs man, Joseph Robert Garcia, was arrested Friday afternoon at around 1 p.m. at his home for taking money from his employer’s cash register. The teen, who worked at a convenience store on Hillcrest in Sulphur Springs, faces a charge of theft over $1,500. According to an arrest report, the man confessed to a Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputy that he was stealing money from a cash register. Garcia...
