At least 2 men have been served with warrants for felony offenses twice in less than a week, according to Hopkins County jail reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Zack Steward and Elijah Fite located Luke Maximus Walters at a County Road 2301 residence at 6:40 p.m. Jan. 5, 2023, and took the 20-year-old Dike man into custody on two warrants. Walters was booked into Hopkins County jail at 7:43 p.m. Thursday on two warrants for indecency with a child by sexual contact. The offenses, the deputies noted in arrest reports, are alleged to have occurred on March 1, 2021.
At 10:15 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Fite contacted Luke Walters, who remained in Hopkins County jail, and served him with three additional warrants, according to arrest reports. He remained in Hopkins County jail Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in lieu of $5 million bond — $1 million each on the two indecency charges as $1 million each on three aggravated sexual assault of a child charges, according to jail reports.
HCSO Deputy Justin Wilkinson served Jameek Montres Pryor at 4 p.m. Jan. 4, 2023, with a warrant for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The offense is alleged to have occurred on Oct. 21, 2022, the day he was arrested on an assault of a family or household member, a charge enhanced to a third-degree felony due to a 2019 conviction, according to arrest reports
He allegedly resisted officers efforts Oct. 21 to take him into custody, pulling way from deputies and once inside the patrol vehicle, allegedly kept yelling at the woman he was accused of assaulting. He allegedly yelled and screamed for water on the way to jail, then tried to kick out the vehicle window. The deputy gave him water and he calmed down and was transported to the county jail, where he was booked in Oct. 21, 2022, on the assault charge, deputies noted in arrest reports.
Pryor was indicted during the Dec. 30, 2022 Grand Jury session on the assault of a family or household member with previous conviction and unauthorized use of a vehicle charges. The 21-year-old Sulphur Springs man was charged with the Oct. 21, 2022 UUV offense on Jan. 4, 2023.
HCSO Deputy Michael Chang then served Pryor with another felony warrant, for robbery, at 4:25 p.m. Jan. 6, 2023, according to arrest reports.
Pryor remained in Hopkins County jail Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in lieu of $175,000 in bonds — $50,000 bond on the assault of a family or household member with previous conviction charge, $100,000 bond on a Van Zandt County assault of a family or household member with previous conviction charge, a $5,000 bond on the unauthorize use of vehicle charge, and $20,000 in bond on the robbery charge, according to jail reports.
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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.
