Nine Others Jailed On Felony Warrants
A 52-year-old Dike man was taken into custody to serve a commitment for an assault on a public servant offense, and nine others were jailed on felony warrants over the last week.
Arrested In District Court
Jerry Mack Price Jr. was taken into custody in the 8th Judicial District Courtroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, after being sentenced to serve a commitment for a 2021 assault on a public servant charge.
The court docket showed the 52-year-old Dike resident was to appear in court at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 23, 2022, for sentencing on the 2021 charge. Jail and arrest records did not list the length of the commitment.
Price allegedly resisted deputies when they tried to arrest him for assaulting his 51-year-old girlfriend, injuring one deputy’s hand and causing another deputy’s knees to be injured during the tussle at his County Road 3520 residence, sheriff’s officers wrote in Price’s Oct. 3, 2021 arrest report.
Price indicted in December 2021 on two assault on a public servant charges and one attempt to take a weapon from an officer charge, all stemming from the Oct. 3, 2021, incident, according to court records.
Price, who is also known by JJ Price and the alias Kerry Mack Price Jr., was escorted from the District Courtroom to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked in and has remained since Aug. 23, 2022, according to jail and arrest reports.
Gerald Gavin was taken into custody by HCSO Jail Officer Courtney Steward in District Court at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 22, 2022, on a warrant revoking his bond on an evading arrest or detention with a vehicle charge. Gavin was slated to appear in court Aug. 22, 2022, at 9 a.m. for a hearing on the state’s motion to deny bail for a civil case related to a criminal case, according to jail reports.
Monday was the second time in less than a week the 18-year-old has been booked into Hopkins County jail. The Cooper teen also spent the night Aug. 16, 2022, in custody for evading arrest or detention on a motorcycle. When deputies attempted to stop him for speeding, he continued south on SH 19 north a distance, engaging officers in a short pursuit before stopping on the shoulder.
Jail records show Gavin, who is also known to spell his name Gerld Gavin, also is held in the county jail without bond on a Delta County evading arrest or detention with a vehicle warrant.
Additional Charges
Conner Lee Hogan was served by Officer Courtney Steward at the county jail at 11:44 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, with a warrant for stalking, according to arrest reports.
The 21-year-old Sulphur Springs man has been in custody in Hopkins county jail since his arrest June 24, 2022 on assault against a public servant and a warrant for insufficient bond on a June 15, 2022 criminal mischief charge (for throwing a tire into a woman’s vehicle window).
He’d just been released June 23, 2022, on the criminal mischief offense. Police attempted to detain the man they’d just dealt with 2 hours before at a Texas Street address. One officer reported seeing the man hold a knife aggressively against his body when they tried to detain and talk to him. A scuffle ensued in an effort to get the knife away from the man; during the struggle, Hogan cut the top part of one police officer’s forearm with the knife, officers alleged in Hogan’s June 24, 2022 arrest report. Bond on the stalking charge was set at $75,000, according to jail reports.
Jail Officer Steward also served Johnathon Lee Goldsmith at 11:34 a.m. Aug. 25, 2022, at the jail with a warrant for indecency with a child by exposure. The 49-year-old Cambridge, Ohio man has been in Hopkins County jail since his arrest Aug. 18, 2022, on an aggravated sexual assault of a child charge, according to arrest and jail offenses.
Goldsmith is also known to use two alternate spellings of his name first name, Johnathan and Jonathon. His bonds total $275,000, according to jail reports. The indecency offense is alleged to have occurred on or about April 4, 2013, according to arrest reports.
Jail Transfers
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Steve Huffman took Adam Blake Smith into custody at 9:57 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, at LeFlore County Detention Center in Poteau, Oklahoma. The 31-year-old was transported to Hopkins County jail, where he was booked in at 3:33 p.m. Friday on warrants for theft, unauthorized use of a vehicle, bail jumping and failure to appear, and bond forfeiture on a resisting arrest, search or transport charge, according to arrest reports.
Smith, who is also known by the aliases Adams Smith and Stephen Cole Smith, remained in Hopkins County jail Saturday, Aug. 26, 2022. The evading arrest and stolen vehicle offenses are alleged to have occurred on July 1, 2020, according to jail records.
HCSO Deputy Terry Thompson took Kerry La Terry Gotcher into custody at 8:45 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, at Gregg County jail and transported him to Hopkins County jail. The 35-year-old Sulphur Springs man was booked in at 12:13 p.m. Friday for surety off bond on a 2021 possession of less than 1 gram of a controlled substance charge. Gotcher also is wanted in Harris County on a theft charge.
Gotcher, who is also known by the alias Kerry Leterrys Gotcher, remained in Hopkins County jail Saturday, Aug. 26, 2022, in lieu of $36,000 bond — $35,000 on the controlled substance charge and $1,000 on the Harris County charge, according to jail reports.
Deputy Steve Huffman took Kobe Lewis into custody at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at Saline County jail in Arkansas, and transported the 20-year-old Little Rock man to Hopkins County. Lewis was booked in at 2:23 p.m. Aug. 25 for bond forfeiture on an April 23, 2022 theft of firearm charge.
Lewis, who is also known by Colby Lewis and Joseph Adams, remained in Hopkins County jail Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. His new bond on the charge was set at $10,000, according to jail reports.
Deputy Steve Huffman also took Brayden Lynn Brown into custody at a TDCJ facility in Henderson at 10:25 a.m. Aug. 23, 2022, and transported the 20-year-old Sulphur Springs man to Hopkins County jail.
Brown was booked in at 1:07 p.m. Aug. 23, 2022, on the warrant for violation of probation which he was on for burglary of a habitation. According to jail reports Tuesday was the third time Brown has been in the county jail for violating probation on the charge.
HCSO Arrest
Rebecca Mae Matlock, a wanted woman, turned herself in at 4:40 p.m. Aug. 21, 2022, at HCSO on two warrants. Deputies Michael Change and Aaron Chaney placed her into custody and escorted the 25-year-old Pickton woman into the county jail. She was booked in at 5:20 p.m. for violation of probation, which she was on for two June 5, 2019 possession of a controlled substance charges
Matlock, who jail records show is also known by Dixie Matlock, Rebecca Maec Matlock, Rebecca Mae Bain and Becky, remained in Hopkins County jail Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Her bond on the charges was set at $50,000 each. According to jail records, last Sunday was the second time Matlock has been jailed for violating her probation on the charges; she also spent Aug. 16-Sept. 3, 2022 in custody on warrants for violating her probation on the 2019 charges.
Traffic Stop
Sulphur Springs Police Officers Francisco Castro and Tyler Francis arrested Kirk Victor Childs at 2:38 p.m. Aug. 22, 2022, on a warrant for violation of probation on an evading arrest or detention with a vehicle charge. The 51-year-old Sulphur Springs man and a woman were observed walking on Elm Street, which intersects the street where officers were working a vehicle crash. The driver of the wrecked car had left the scene, Castro and Francis noted in arrest reports.
The pair claimed they did not know who had been driving the black Honda Civic when it crashed, but said the car belonged to them. They said they’d just come from their Calvert Street residence. A records check showed the man to be wanted on the outstanding charge; he was taken into custody. The car was towed from the location by the on-call wrecker service, the SSPD officers noted in arrest reports.
Childs was booked into Hopkins County jail at 3:19 p.m. Aug. 22, 2022, on the Hunt county warrant for violation of probation on an evading arrest or detention with a vehicle charge, according to arrest reports. The Sulphur Springs man remained in custody in Hopkins County overnight on the Hunt County warrant, according to jail records.
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