Winnsboro Police Department Media Report Dec. 30, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020
Arrests
- Richard Morgan, 36 years of age, of Winnsboro, was arrested on 1/1/2020 for multiple Winnsboro Municipal Court warrants.
Calls for Service
- The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 241 calls for service during this reporting period.
Citations
- The Winnsboro Police Department issued 75 citations and 80 warnings during this reporting period.
New Wildcats Assistant Basketball Coach Austin Fleming on Saturday Morning Coaches Show
Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta lost both of his assistant coaches after last season as they accepted opportunities after the Wildcats magical season. Coach Cipoletta was able to hire three coaches to replace them. He said that gave him a staff to equal lots of other Class 5A programs. Earlier this season, Wildcats Assistant Coach Sean Coleman was a guest on KSST and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday Morning Coach’s Show. Assistant Austin Fleming was on The Coach’s Show last Saturday (January 4) and Assistant Joe Garcia will be on soon. Coach Fleming is the Wildcats Freshman Basketball Coach as well as an assistant varsity coach. Coach Fleming is a native of Edgewood and attended Louisiana Tech. He was an assistant at a Pittsburg junior high school for two years and was Head Basketball Coach at Class 1A Zephyr for one year before coming to Sulphur Springs this season. Coach Fleming said one of his main varsity game assignments is to determine what out of bounds plays the Wildcats will run. He said Coach Cipoletta also discusses offense with him and even calls him his offensive coordinator. Coach Fleming said he is enjoying his first year at Sulphur Springs. He said his freshmen players are a bunch of gym rats who love the game. Coach Fleming said they have played a lot of good Class 6A teams. He said he is grateful to be working for a coach like Clark Cipoletta who knows the game so well. He said Coach Cip is very detail oriented and leaves no stone unturned when preparing for an opponent.
Basketball and Soccer on Tuesday Game Day
Last year’s back to back Lady Cats and Wildcats’ basketball games in district play seemed to be well received by fans. The Lady Cats and Wildcats will again be involved in one on this game day Tuesday (January 7) but this one will feature non-district games and will be on the road. Sherman is the host. Action begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday with the Lady Cats JV versus the Sherman JV in the main Sherman gym. Then the Lady Cats varsity will play the Lady Bearcats varsity beginning at 6:15 p.m. with the Wildcats varsity taking on the Sherman varsity at around 7:30 p.m. with both games also in the main Sherman gym. The Wildcats JV will play Sherman’s JV at 5 p.m. in the Sherman Auxiliary Gym with the Wildcats freshman taking on the Bearcats’ freshman at 6:15 p.m in the Sherman Auxiliary Gym. The Lady Cats varsity is 6-16 for the season. The Wildcats are ranked #4 in Class 5A and they are 16-6 for the season. Wildcats Basketball Coach Clark Cipoletta says Sherman should challenge the Wildcats. He says one Bearcat player scored 42 points against Mount Pleasant last Friday in a 4 point Sherman loss. Coach Cipoletta says Sherman is athletic and will fly around and hustle. He adds they like to vary their defenses.
Meanwhile the Lady Cats Soccer Team opens the regular season at home at Gerald Prim Stadium on this game day Tuesday facing old foe North Lamar. There will be a JV contest at 5:30 p.m. The varsity match should get underway at around 7:15 p.m. The Lady Cats have a new head coach, Javier Aguayo, an assistant last year for Wildcats Soccer Coach Alexi Upton. The Lady Cats have played well in scrimmages this season. The Lady Cats tied a traditionally good Kilgore team 2-2 before losing in penalty kicks at Prim Stadium. Then the Lady Cats topped Paris, 1-0 on the road. Coach Aguayo is replacing longtime Lady Cats assistant coach and head coach Joel Bailey, who retired from coaching after last season. KSST Radio will bring you the Lady Cats and Pantherettes soccer match live from The Prim with live video and audio streaming beginning at around 7:15 p.m. The game will also be videotaped and posted to YouTube and also be broadcast at a later date on Channel 18 on Suddenlink Cable.
Campbell Woman Jailed Following Fight At Sulphur Springs Shopping Center
A 25-year-old Campbell woman was reportedly arrested Monday afternoon following her involvement in fight at a Sulphur Springs shopping center.
Officers reportedly responded at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 6 to a report of a disturbance at Spring Village Shopping Center. Upon arrival in shopping center in the 1100 block of South Broadway Street, officers alleged the Campbell woman was in a physical altercation involving another person.
When police attempted to talk to the woman, they alleged she had “no control over her facial muscles,” spoke with a thick tongue and “displayed the inability to stay still.” She allegedly admitted she had used methamphetamine earlier in the day Jan. 6.
Believing the woman to be a danger to herself or others, she was taken into custody and transported to the emergency room. Once medically cleared, she was taken to Hopkins County jail for public intoxication, Sulphur Springs police alleged in arrest reports.
The Campbell woman spent the night in the county jail and was released from custody Tuesday morning, according to jail reports.
Carrollton Woman Jailed On Hopkins County Warrant
Hopkins County sheriff’s officials were notified Leslie Austin Boswell was in custody at Dallas County jail on a Hopkins County warrant. Deputy Elijah Fite traveled to Dallas County, took the 52-year-old Carrollton woman into custody at 5 p.m. Monday and transported her to Hopkins County jail, according to arrest reports.
Boswell was booked into the Hopkins County jail at 7:13 p.m. Jan. 6 on the warrant for violation of probation, which she was on for a July 13, 2017 possession of 1 gram or more but less than 4 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance charge, according to jail and arrest reports.
Sulphur Springs Pair Jailed On Controlled Substance Charge
Robert Earl Hawkins Jr. 
Crystal Paige Lyon
Officers stopped a Buick LeSabre at 7:39 p.m. Monday on Carter Street at Calvert Street after the driver failed to signal a turn; both occupants were allegedly taken into custody after methamphetamine was found in their possession, according to police reports.
When Robert Earl Hawkins Jr. was asked to exit the car, the 35-year-old Sulphur Springs man allegedly began making what police described in arrest reports as furtive movements. He was reportedly placed into custody as a precaution for the officer’s safety.
A records check allegedly showed Hawkins to be wanted on a no seat belt warrant. When asked if all items on the top of the car were his, he reportedly affirmed they were. Inside of a small wallet Hawkins claimed as his a baggy containing a crystal-like substance officers believed to be methamphetamine was found, resulting in Hawkins also being charged with possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance in a drug-free zone, Sulphur Springs Police Officers Derrick Williams and Zachary Brown alleged in arrest reports.
The passenger in the car was identified in arrest reports as Crystal Paige Lyon. A probable cause search of the car allegedly revealed the 33-year-old Sulphur Springs woman to be in possession of methamphetamine, resulting in her arrest for possession of less than 1 gram of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance in a drug free zone, Brown and Williams alleged in arrest reports.
Both Hawkins and Lyon remained in the county jail Tuesday morning, Jan. 7. Bond for each was set at $10,000 on the controlled substance charge, according to jail reports.
SSISD Substitute Teacher Orientation Slated Jan. 10
Sulphur Springs Independent School District officials will be conducting a Substitute Teacher Orientation on Friday, Jan. 10, in the SSISD Administration Board Room, located at 631 Connally St. The training will start at 9 a.m. and will last approximately two hours.
This orientation is required for anyone new who wants to be a substitute teacher for SSISD.
For more information, contact Tawlene Lampp at 903-885-2153.
Como Man Allegedly Arrested Following Disturbances Involving Grandmother, Deputy
A 19-year-old Como man alleged to have been involved in a disturbance with his grandmother reportedly compounded his unruly behavior by trying to run from and bite sheriff’s officers, according to arrest reports
Hopkins County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 8:45 p.m. to a County Road 2330 residence, where a grandson had reportedly been drinking and behaving aggressively while engaged in a verbal disturbance, according to sheriff’s reports.
Upon arrival, officers talked to the man’s family; the 19-year-old was accused of grabbing his grandmother’s knee, causing pain, deputies alleged in arrest reports. While talking with the teen, he allegedly admitted to consuming eight beers.
When deputies attempted to place the 19-year-old into handcuffs, the Como man allegedly refused to put his hands behind his back. He allegedly pulled way from officers by slipping out of his sweatshirt and running around behind the residence. He was detained, placed into handcuffs and escorted to a deputy’s patrol vehicle.
When another deputy arrived to assist, the Como man allegedly attempted to bite the deputy and was “taken to the ground for safety,” the sheriff’s officers alleged in arrest reports. At that point, the teen’s family reportedly became involved again, creating a potential safety issue, according to reports.
Once placed into the patrol vehicle, the teen allegedly refused to move his foot from the open door. The man’s foot was reportedly pushed in so the patrol vehicle’s door could be closed.
The 19-year-old Como man was taken to jail on resisting arrest, search or transport and evading arrest or detention charges, according to arrest reports. He remained in the county jail Tuesday morning on both Class A misdemeanor charges; bond was set at $2,000 each, according to jail reports.
County Road 3519 Traffic Stop Results In Felony Arrest
A routine traffic stop Monday night resulted in Kevin Shane Bilharz’s arrest on a controlled substance charge, according to arrest reports.
Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Drew Fisher reported stopping a GMC pickup at 10:32 p.m. Jan. 6 on County Road 3519 at County Road 3504, after noticing the license plates on the trailer attached to the truck was expired, according to arrest reports. Upon contact with the driver, Fisher reported seeing a rifle between the driver’s seat and the console.
Bilharz allegedly agreed to let the deputy search the truck and was patted down. Fisher alleged finding a crystal-like substance he suspected to be methamphetamine in a small clear container with a green lid in his jacket pocket. Bilharz was placed into custody. A scale, glass pipe of the kind commonly used to smoke methamphetamine and several torch lighters were found in the truck, Fisher alleged in arrest reports.
Deputy Kevin Lester and Lt. Amanda Weatherford were reported to have assisted with the traffic stop and arrest.
The truck was towed from the location and Bilharz was jailed for possession of 4 grams or more but less than 200 grams of a Penalty Group 1 controlled substance, according to arrest reports. The 30-year-old Sulphur Springs man remained in the county jail Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, on the second-degree felony controlled substance charge, according to jail reports.
