Keller Sentenced to 10 Years for Cattle Theft
Lane Wesley Keller, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for cattle theft and two (2) years state jail for Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle Tuesday afternoon in Eighth Judicial District Court, according to District Attorney Will Ramsey. In October of last year, Keller, at his attorney’s office, had confessed to investigators his involvement in the theft of cattle in Hopkins County. Keller had taken investigators to the...
3 Jailed This Week On Felony Warrants
At least 3 people were jailed this week in Hopkins County on non-controlled substance felony warrants. Kasey Anderson Benson Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Josh Davis and Bobby Osornio contacted Kasey Anderson Benson at an FM 69 south residence and placed him into custody at 10:10 p.m. July 7, 2022. The 44-year-old Como man was booked into Hopkins County jail after midnight on the injury to a child, elderly or disabled...
Harness Sentenced in Cattle Theft
“The main goal is to punish these guys but also allow them to provide restitution to the victims,” according to a statement by the District Attorney’s office. The statement was made in reference to the difference in penalties received by Landon Dee Harness and Lane Wesley Keller following their guilty pleas to Theft of Cattle and Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle. Harness paid $5,000 in restitution Thursday, will spend every night...
80 Indictments Handed Up by Hopkins County Grand Jury in January
A Hopkins County Grand Jury handed up 80 indictments Wednesday. Sixty-eight (68) have been arrested. Those arrested and indicted include: Gavin Heath Gilbert was indicted for Murder and on four counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Gilbert, 17, was been charged with one count of Murder and four counts of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. Gilbert is in Hopkins County Jail being held on a $2-million bond for murder...
Hopkins County Grand Jury: 63 Indictments
November 10, 2017 – Sixty-three indictments were the result of a meeting of the Hopkins County Grand Jury Thursday. Not all of the indictments are named below awaiting arrests. However, those who have been arrested and indicted include: Casey Gween Miles, 22, was indicted on seven counts of Sexual Assault Child. Miles was arrested in September of this year for Sexual Assault of a Child, a Felony 2. Advised of his rights when he...
Hopkins County Records- Dec. 3, 2021
Land Deed Transfers Deed Records at Hopkins County Clerk’s Office Austin Dyer and Michael Dyer to Kevin Douglas Shaffer and Michelle Renee Shaffer; tract in the John Norris surveySummit Ranch Investments LTD to Rangarirai Makore; tract in the WP Smith surveySamantha Hilburn to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Newrez LLC doing business as Newrez Mortgage, to Mary Ann Bowlin surveyApril Adams to Samantha Hilburn;...
February 2021 Grand Jury Indictments
A Hopkins County Grand Jury during the February session signed approximately 90 indictments naming at least 70 people. Offenses ranged from aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, abandoning or endangerin ga child, assault of a pregnant person, assault on a security officer, and sexual assault of a child to stalking, theft, evading arrest, stolen vehicle, firearm, burglary, controlled substance and felony DWI charges. In some cases...
Local Man Admits Theft of Cattle; Additional Charge Added
Monday afternoon, Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigators met Lane Wesley Keller, 21, of Sulphur Springs at his attorney’s office where he confessed to his involvement in an ongoing investigation into the theft of cattle in Hopkins County. Keller took investigators to the location where the cattle had been loaded into a trailer for transport to Oklahoma to be sold. He was also served an outstanding warrant for Unauthorized Use of a...
Two Local Men Arrested for Cattle Theft
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigator Dennis Findley and Texas State Cattle Raisers’ Special Ranger Toney Hurley arrested two local men for the theft of 12 head of cattle and selling them in Oklahoma. Landon Dee Harness, 22, of Sulphur Springs and Lane Wesley Keller, 21 were arrested for Theft of Cattle, less than $150,000. The pair had secretly fed the cattle for a period of time and were able to load them into trailers using the...
