Budget Amended To Cover Increased Costs Of Feeding Inmates At Hopkins County Jail
Housing Agreement With Rockwall County, Architect For New ‘Trustee Housing Facility’ Approved Too Several jail-related items were approved this week. The jail budget required amending to balance additional food costs not factored into the 2020-21 budget. An interlocal cooperation agreement with Rockwall County and an architect to construct the new Hopkins County Jail ‘Trustee Housing Facility’ too received...
I-30 Traffic Stop Results In Discovery Of Pipe And Methamphetamine, Arrest
An Interstate 30 traffic stop by deputies Thursday afternoon resulted in discovery of a pipe and methamphetamine, and one felony arrest. A Quinlan woman was also booked into Hopkins County jail Wednesday on a controlled substance warrant, according to arrest reports. I-30 Traffic Stop Laura Kay Rogers Kirtley Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jason Lavender noticed a Dodge pickup enter the entrance ramp to Interstate 30...
Thirteen Men Arrested On Felony Warrants Over Past Week By Local Authorities
Thirteen men were arrested on felony warrants by local authorities from Sept. 13-21, 2021, according to arrest and jail reports. Jacob Thomas Ramsey Sulphur Springs Police Officers Dustin Green and Sgt. Brandon Mayes spotted Jacob Thomas Ramsey walking at 9:18 a.m. Sept. 19, on the wrong side of Carter Street. They contacted him and conducted a records check. Communications operators advised the 26-year-old Sulphur Springs man had an...
Woman Claims She Was Going To Pick Her Children Up From School After 5 p.m. When Arrested For DWI
A 31-year-old Dike woman claimed she was going to pick her children up from school – at 5:30 p.m. – when deputies arrested her for DWI. This was her second DUI arrest in less than a year, according to arrest and jail reports. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office deputies received more than one complaint in regard to a reckless driver on FM 1537. One complainant told...
Evading Arrest Charge Enhanced To Felony Due To Prior Convictions
A man who tried to run from officers during a traffic stop ended up charged with two felonies, including an evading arrest charge enhanced to a felony due to prior convictions, according to sheriff’s reports. Justin Wayne Andrews Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Josh Davis and Sgt. Tanner Steward reported that not only did Justin Wayne Andrews fail to stop the Concord he was driving at a Van Sickle Street stop sign...
Man Arrested In 2017 For Smuggling People Into The Country Is Back In Hopkins County Jail On Warrants
A 30-year-old Mexico man Arrested In 2017 for smuggling people into the country was back in Hopkins County jail Friday morning on warrants. Alejandro Castro Rodriguez Hopkins Count Sheriff’s Office was alerted Alejandro Castro Rodriguez was in custody in Webb County jail on two Hopkins County warrants. HCSO Deputy Steve Huffman traveled to Laredo, took custody of Rodriguez at 6:48 a.m. Sept. 16 and transported him to Hopkins...
Two-Vehicle Crash Resulted In One Death, 2 Being Flown To Trauma Center
A two-vehicle crash resulted in one death and two people being flown from the I-30 service road, east of Sulphur Springs, to an area trauma center Friday morning, authorities reported. A four-door passenger car traveling east on the south I-30 service road east of FM 69 near Shaggy Road careened in to the back of a sanitation collection truck, trapping the three occupants of the car. Hopkins County 911 operators were contacted at 7:49...
Goodson Sentenced To 25 Years For Failure to Appear, 10 Years On Felony DWI Conviction
Eighth Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt sentenced 50-year-old man Larry Tyrone Goodson to 10 years imprisonment on a third or more driving while intoxicated conviction and 25 years for failure to appear, according to court reports. Larry Tyrone Goodson On Aug. 17, 2021, Goodson pled guilty before Judge Northcutt to the July 5, 2020 third or more driving while intoxicated offense and a June 7, 2021 bail jumping and failure to...
2 Sulphur Springs Men Sentenced On One Sexual Assault Charge Each
Two Sulphur Springs men were sentenced this week in the 8th Judicial District Court on one sexual assault charge each. Fernando Santana-Vasquez Fernando Santana-Vasquez made an open plea in court to a sexual assault of a child, who was 15 at the time of the offense. Eighth Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt sentenced the 51-year-old Sulphur Springs man to 4 years of imprisonment and fined him $4,000 on the sexual assault of a...
Sulphur Springs Man Accused OF Felony DWI With Child Passenger
Pair Reported For Screaming Jailed On Public Intoxication Charge A 27-year-old Sulphur Springs man was accused Saturday evening of driving while intoxicated with a child younger than 15 years of age in the pickup with him at the time. Three others were also booked into the county jail over the weekend on intoxication charges, according to arrest and jail reports. Felony DWI Arrest Dustin Mackenzie Davis Davis first caught the...
