Gambling Raid in County Nets Three Arrests; Investigation Continues
When Hopkins County Sheriff’s Investigators and Deputies served a warrant for gambling at 1 a.m. Saturday morning at the former Country Boys Gas Station located on Highway 11 E at FM 3019 near Winnsboro, they found 15 to 20 individuals participating in playing computer based programs on slot machines adapted for the programs, according to Corley Weatherford, Investigator for the Sheriff’s Office. Reports had been given to the local...
Search Continues for Barrel Chested Bandit
The search continues for the man the FBI now calls the Barrel Chested Bandit that robbed the Alliance Bank Southtown Branch on November 3rd of this year. He is also wanted as a suspect in bank robberies in Longview, Amarillo, and one in New Mexico, according to Sulphur Springs Police Chief Jay Sanders. Local law enforcement, the FBI, and Texas Rangers continue the search for a 6-foot tall, heavy-set, white male. A $3500 reward has...
Tilley Given a Second, Second Chance by 8th Judicial Criminal Court
He has been to prison more than once and sitting in Eighth Judicial District Court Tuesday afternoon with his wife, who is pregnant with his fourth child, and three children sitting in the rows behind him, he now faced the possibility of 25 years to life for his fourth DWI. However, Eric Wydell Tilley was given a second, second chance when Judge Eddie Northcutt pronounced what he called the toughest decision he has had to make in the...
Hopkins County Jury Finds Tilley Guilty of DWI 3rd or More
Eric Wydell Tilley was found guilty of DWI 3rd or More by a Hopkins County Jury in Eighth Judicial District Court Wednesday morning. The two day trial ended with the jury deliberating 32 minutes. Tilley will be sentenced by the judge on August 11th. His range of punishment is 25-years to life. He has been in prison five times before for burglary, robbery, retaliation, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, and DWI 3rd or...
Three Sentenced in Hopkins County 8th Judicial District Court Monday
April 25, 2016 – In Hopkins County 8th Judicial District Court Monday afternoon, Jacob Thompson plead guilty before the court to a first degree felony theft of livestock and a second degree felony theft of property. He received 10 years’ probation for the first degree felony and 10 years deferred probation for the felony 2. In June of 2014, he was arrested by Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raiser’s Association Special Ranger...
Four Transferred to Prison
Perry Jeff Yates, 31, Stanton Wayne Yates, 30, Patrick Wayne McMahan, 31, and Cody Scott Shaw, 27, were transferred to the Texas Department of Corrections Thursday morning according to Sheriff Butch Adams. Adams stated that the four were first transferred to Hunt County where they were placed on a bus for the trip to Huntsville. The Yates brothers worked together in burglarizing several in Hopkins County and the Collin County area....
Capital Murder Pleas Save County Money
When Patrick Wayne McMahan and Cody Scott Shaw plead guilty to the capital murder of their employer Gary Maynard, Hopkins County breathed a sigh of relief. Citizens in the county were relieved that the event of Mr. Maynard’s murder had found a just ending and they were relieved that the bulk of the cost of a capital murder trial had been averted. Shaw was sentenced to life in prison without parole and McMahan to straight life with...
Shaw Pleads Guilty; Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole
December 28, 2015 – Cody Scott Shaw, 27, entered a plea of guilty to Capital Murder charges in the murder and robbery of 66-year old Gary Maynard. Shaw entered his plea Monday afternoon, December 28, 2015, during a pretrial hearing in 8th Judicial District Court. District Judge Eddie Northcutt sentenced Shaw to life in prison without parole. The sentence came as a part of an agreement for the guilty plea. Shaw is one of two...
Bank Robbed in Franklin County
Franklin County Sheriff, Ricky Jones announced today November 17, 2015, that his department along with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and Texas Department of Public Safety’s Texas Rangers Service are investigating a Bank Robbery which occurred at 1:20PM at the Lake Cypress Springs Branch of First National Bank of Mount Vernon. The bank is located at 6648 FM 115, Scroggins in Franklin County. A male...
Robbed While Walking Home From School
Sulphur Springs Police Detective Sgt. Monty Tipps has been assigned to investigate a case of robbery last Friday where a 16-year old boy was threatened into turning over his cell phone to two men in their early twenties. Two 16-year old boys were walking home from Sulphur Springs High School last Friday at about 4:45 p.m. when they were confronted by two men in their early twenties. At first they demanded the sneakers and cell phone...
