Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by Felon; Two Arrested for Methamphetamine
A traffic stop of a 1998 Ford F-150 pickup Friday found the Arkansas driver nervous and the passenger tampering with evidence in an attempt to hide some of the suspected methamphetamine. Hopkins County deputies found the driver to have a suspended Arkansas driver’s license. Following consent to search the vehicle, the driver side door contained contraband including a black vile with a clear baggie inside containing a green leafy...
Final Pre-Trial For Mapps Set for July 15; Trial Set for August 8
A pre-trial hearing was conducted Thursday and the final pre-trail hearing is set for July 15th, as the District Attorney’s office moves toward an August 8th trial date for Joshua Isaiah Tilton Mapps, 21 . Mapps is scheduled to be tried for murder, a Felony 1 and Tamper/Fabricate Physical Evidence with Intent to Impair, a Felony 3. Mapps is accused of the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young at Pacific Park on June 8, 2015. Since July 2,...
Mapps Trial Set for August
An August trial date has been set for Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps, 21, according to the office the Eighth Judicial District Attorney. Mapps is accused of the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young at Pacific Park on June 8, 2015. He is being held in Hopkins County Jail on a $1.5 million bond for murder and two $20,000 bonds for tampering with evidence. He was arraigned before 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt Monday, October 26,...
KSST News’s Top 20 Stories for 2015
[Editor’s note: KSST thanks Don Julian for his diligence as News Director. We are happy that he will continue as Sports Director. He files the following report.] Here is my list of the top twenty stories of 2015. #20. The Sulphur Springs ISD Auditorium renovation project seems to be moving at a snail’s pace. It also proved to be more expensive than first thought. #19. The city of Sulphur Springs begins a large pavilion...
Bond Reduced for Mapps
Friday morning, 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt reduced bond for Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps, 21, from $1.5 million to $1 million for the charge of murder and reduced the total of $40,000 for two counts of tampering with evidence to $20,000. The bond reduction hearing was the next step Mapps trail through the court system until his trial for murder and tampering with evidence. Mapps was arraigned before Judge Northcutt on...
Mapps Arraigned Monday
Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps, 21, was arraigned before 8th Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt Monday, October 26, 2015 for the murder of Jonathan Trahern Young at Pacific Park on June 8th of this year. Mapps will now have a bond reduction hearing later this month. He is being held in Hopkins County Jail on a $1.5 million bond for murder and two $20,000 bonds for tampering with evidence. He was indicted for the charges by a Hopkins...
Vasquez Brother Arrested in October 11th Shooting
A second man has been charged in a shooting incident that took place October 11, 2015 on Ingram Street in Sulphur Springs. Michael Anthony Garcia, 28, brother of Jesse Luis Vasquez, the victim in the incident, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, tampering with evidence, and a felon in possession of a fire arm, according to SSPD Chief Jay Sanders. Garcia turned himself in to Sulphur Springs Police this week....
Winn Sentenced to 15 Months in TDJC
Thursday afternoon in 8th Judicial District Court, Daniel Winn, a former Criminal Investigator with the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to day-for-day 15 months in the Texas Department of Corrections. Winn was sentenced based on 7 counts of tampering with evidence which are state jail felonies. Appointed Special Prosecutor Gary Young of Lamar County and the court dropped 7 third degree felony counts. Winn’s...
Additional Charge Filed Against Mapps
An additional charge has been filed against Tilton Joshua Isaiah Mapps based on a complaint from the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s office. Added to the murder charge is a tampering with evidence with intent to injure. Mapps admitted to throwing into an unspecified body of water the weapon used in the Pacific Park murder of Johnathan Young. The U S Marshal’s office is also processing a charge of crossing state lines to...
Drove Into House; Sitting in Jail
A 22 year old man has been charged with several offenses after he ended up driving his vehicle into a home on FM 1567 at County Road 1190 just after 6 a.m. Tuesday. Fortunately there were no injuries. 22-year old Colton Blake Skinner was charged with tampering with evidence and possession of a controlled substance before Justice of the Peace B.J. Teer who set bond at $15,000 total. The man apparently tossed some pills out of the...
