Police News June 07

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Police News June 07

POLICE NEWS
VOLUME IV, NUMBER 6
GULFCOASTPOLICENEWS.COM
The Day That Little Anna Died,
No One Even Cried
The story of the death of a little girl that touched the hearts
of the investigators that would finally bring her justice.
by Marie Beth Jones
n autopsy on the body of 12-yearold Anna Farmer told a tragic story
of her life, as well as her death.
She had suffered multiple
blunt
force
traumas with
internal
injuries including a lacerated
liver and ruptured duodenum, as well
as a tear in her
uterine wall.
Anna Farmer
The rupture
resulted in the girl’s stomach contents
emptying into her abdominal cavity.
In addition Anna had severe scarring on
her buttocks, apparently caused about
three months earlier, when her stepfather,
James Yost, “gave her a spanking,” using
a 15-inch long board wrapped in black
tape. This “spanking” was so severe that
it split the skin on her buttocks.
On top of that, Anna was severely malnourished, being five feet, five inches tall
and weighing just 68 pounds, though a
photo taken a few years earlier showed a
pretty, plump-cheeked, girl with a happy
smile.
When Lt. Russ Baker, an investigator
with the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office,
arrived on the scene about 4 a.m. on that
cold day near the end of December in
2003, he couldn’t see the full extent of the
girl’s injuries, of course, but he did notice
a line across her abdomen, as well as
bruises indicating blunt force trauma.
He also saw a girl so emaciated that her
shoulder-blades resembled wings, and her
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spinal column and ribs stood out as clear
evidence of malnutrition.
“She was a hurt little girl,” he says, shaking his head as he remembers the scene.
Baker was at home and was asleep
when a dispatcher called him at 3:30 or
4:00 a.m. on Dec. 29, 2003, telling him
that Deputy Bobby Janek had responded
to a 9-1-1 call. Janek had found the girl
dead under what appeared to be suspicious circumstances.
Dressing quickly, Baker headed to a
small, single-wide, two-bedroom trailer on
County Road 879-B near Pearland. Janek
led him to a small room in the back, which
was strewn with clothing.
“Anna was lying on a mattress on the
floor,” Baker says. “She looked like a
porcelain doll.”
As he talked to the girl’s mother, Bridget
Farmer, Baker’s most vivid impression
was of the woman’s total absence of emotion about her daughter’s death.
“There was just no emotion at all,” he
says. “Nothing was there.”
Bridget originally claimed that she
awoke to find Anna dead and her husband, James Yost, gone, but some of her
story didn’t add up.
Baker took Bridget and her two toddlers,
who were very close to the same age, to
the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office.
Clerks on duty there took care of the chil-
continued on page 10 (Anna)
June 2007
Bankrupt Felon Heads New Caney Schools
By Breck Porter
Gulf Coast Police News
Along a stretch of U.S. Highway 59 in
southeast Montgomery County, going east
through the piney woods towards
Texarkana, lies the city of New Caney, population around 21,000, and the home of
the New Caney Independent School
District.
Not only does the NCISD provide education to over 8,300 children in 11 schools,
it is also the fourth largest employer in the
county and it provides a large helping of
political fodder for those in and out of politics.
Although the business of the school district takes place in New Caney, and the
board meetings are conducted in New
Caney, the children from the Porter and
the Kingwood communities also attend
classes in the New Caney School District.
This is a bone of contention for those who
claim they pay more school taxes to the
district because they have more taxable
property.
There is little attention paid to the NCISD
by the local press, which consists of about
three small newspapers with out-of-town
ownership. Other than the routine
announcements of board meetings and
printing the ‘feel good’ articles and
‘attaboys’, the local papers are impotent
when it comes to rooting out the stuff that
politicians like to
hide. Unlike big
city
media
which can afford
high
priced
investigative
reporters, the
New
Caney
Independent
School District
has been able to Jail mugshot of New
function on its Caney school board
own doing pretty trustee Gene Gregory folmuch what it lowing his arrest in
pleases, without Uvalde in 2003
oversight from or by anyone. And they
absolutely do not like it when outside
reporters come snooping around.
Case in point: David Eugene Gregory, a
59-year old local home builder turned
salesman for a funeral home, has been on
continued on page 20 (Felon)
Officer Henry Williams Shot and Killed
By Member of a Well-to-do Area Family
February 8, 1886
A headline from the New York Times of
Tuesday, February 9, 1886 read:
A POLICEMAN MURDERED-THE CRIME
OF A MAN DRIVEN CRAZY BY STRONG
DRINK
From that same day, a headline from the
Galveston Daily News read:
SLAIN WITH A SIX-SHOOTER-MORE
BLOODSHED IN THE BAYOU CITY
Other newspapers in Dallas and Houston
basically told the tragic story of how a drunken young man from a prominent family took
the life of one of the Houston Police
Department’s finest, Officer Henry Williams.
Kyle Terry, a tall, well-built and handsome
young man from a prominent family in
Richmond, Fort Bend County, had been in
Houston for several days. It was reported that
he had been indulging in liquor rather freely
and had become extremely intoxicated.
Officer Henry Williams confronted
him for a city ordinance violation.
Officer Williams, aware of Kyle
Terry’s reputation, used caution in
dealing with him. He summoned
Officer Jack White to assist him, figuring that
Terry would resist any attempt to being arrested but would likely go peacefully with the
more personally familiar Officer White.
On this Monday night, February 8, 1886,
officers arrested Kyle Terry and took him to
the station house. There, they removed a pistol from his possession and filed an additional charge relating to the weapon. Probably
partially due to his family connections, he
was released on bond with orders to appear
in court the following morning at 10 o’clock to
answer the charges levied against him.
After leaving the court and before going
home for the night, he returned to the scene
of his arrest. There, in one of the local bars,
continued on page 8 (Officer Murdered)
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Kemah Police Officer Jerry Barmore (L)and Sgt. Sam Hodges with CPAAAmembers
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INDEX
The Day That Little Anna Died, No One Even Cried
Bankrupt Felon Heads New Caney Schools
Officer Henry Williams Shot and Killed By Member of a Well-to-do Area Family
Fugitives
Letters
Texas Ranger Joe Haralson's Speech National Police Week Memorial Ceremony
Crossword Puzzle
AG Gets Mike Merkel Award
Texas Executions
Women In Prison
Sex Offenders
The Fifty Club of Galveston County Awards
pages 1–10 & 11
pages 1 & 20
pages 1–8 & 21
pages 4–5 & 6
page 7
page 12
page 13
page 17
pages 18 & 19
pages 22 & 26
pages 23–24 & 25
page 28
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on Galveston Police.
You are correct, they put thier lives on
the line for us, daily, and most people do
not realize what all they go through.
Thanks again
Shelle
To The Editor,
Thank you for reporting recently when
thousands of Galveston school children
were forced to evacuate their schools
because of a series of bomb threats,
which turned out to be a hoax.
Had it not been for your reporting, the
parents of these children would have
known nothing about these events as they
were not reported in any of the other
media that I saw.
Even though these calls are often
pranks, parents want to know when they
happen and what is being done to protect
our children. We only find out they are
hoaxes after the fact.
N. Frost
Galveston
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Today is a sad and devastating day for
us. Scott’s killer is being released from
prison sometime today. Yesterday would
have been our 19th wedding anniversary.
David, me and the kids went out to the
cemetery yesterday and put a new angel
and flowers out and cleaned his headstone.
There are no words to describe what
Tanner, Betty and I are feeling right now.
It is not right that Scott’s killer should be
walking around while Scott is six feet
under. It won’t ever be right.
Yes, the three of us are dealing with
Scott’s death still to this day. You don’t
move on or get over it. To do so would
minimize the love we had for Scott and
how important he was in our lives. We get
up each day and live with the fact that
Scott was taken from us too soon. We
can’t change that fact, but it doesn’t make
it hurt any less. We try not to dwell on his
death too much, but we do still have bad
days. They have gotten farther and farther
between, but they will never go away. We
still keep his memory alive for Tanner by
encouraging him to tell stories and keeping his pictures up in our home. David
and Tanner recently built a memorial garden at our home around the flagpole.
Tanner picked the flowers and David
designed it. It was David’s idea because
he lost his dad at a young age, too, and he
knows how much he disliked going to the
cemetery. There are no happy memories
associated with a headstone. Now Tanner
only has to look out his bedroom window
to see the memorial garden.
Please keep us in your prayers as we
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continued from page 1 (Officer Murdered)
he met up with some of his drinking buddies.
They added fuel to the already hot fire
between him and Officer Williams. These
“friends” were apparently successful when
they prodded Terry on, telling him that Officer
Williams had made verbal threats against
Terry and obviously was “out to get him.”
Terry arrived early for his court session the
following morning. Being impatient, he admitted later that he desired a drink and left the
courthouse to go to the bar. En route, he
encountered Officer Henry Williams on
Preston Street at the south corner of Market
Square. Williams, who had likely been on
duty the entire night, was on his way to do his
duty by testifying against Terry regarding the
arrest of the previous night.
Witnesses abounded at this daytime confrontation. An independent witness, A. F.
Lazier, was very close to the tragic event. The
Galveston Daily News wrote of his account:
Lazier observed a disturbance between
Officer Williams and several men. He started
across the street and saw Terry there and
heard him making some threatening remarks
to the officer. He then saw Terry draw a
revolver from his pocket and point it toward
the officer, saying something like, “I am determined to kill.” Everyone nearby scattered and
ran. Terry rushed toward the officer, and from
a distance of only four or five feet, fired one
shot and then several more. Kyle Terry was
heard to say something to the effect, “I have
killed you, you SOB.”
Constable Perkins grabbed Kyle Terry and
tried to hold him, pleading for someone in the
crowd to come and help him. Eventually,
another officer, Dan Scanlan, stepped in and
assisted Constable Perkins in the arrest of
Terry.
There were numerous other witnesses to
this murder and they were all consistent with
Mr. Lazier. These independent witnesses stated that as Terry saw Officer Williams, he
shouted to him while pulling his pistol, “there
is the sonofabitch who is wanting to kill me.”
Whether this was true, it was apparently what
Kyle Terry believed, especially after having
been fired up the night before by his
“friends.” The only area in which these witnesses differed was whether Officer Williams
was felled by the first shot or had already fallen when he was shot the first time.
All were in agreement that Kyle Terry fired
more shots after Williams was on the ground.
Another point of consistency in the witness
accounts was that Williams had not drawn
nor fired his weapon. One witness was quoted
as hearing Terry shout “Get back all of you.
Give me equal break or I will dose you all.”
Unfortunately, the damage was done.
Officer Williams died almost instantly in the
gutter. He was taken at once to Justice
Railey’s office, where a jury of inquest was
impaneled. The inquest, conducted by Dr. T.
J. Boyles, determined that Williams was
struck by one ball of ammunition near the left
nipple, passing through the aorta and lodging
at the junction of the ninth rib and the spinal
column, causing almost instant death.
Second and third balls struck his body, rendering the victim completely helpless and
immobile.
The verdict of the inquest jury: “We, the
jury, believe from the evidence before us that
the deceased, Henry Williams, came to his
death from a gunshot wound inflicted by one
Kyle Terry, and that said pistol was held and
fired by Kyle Terry, on February 8, 1886, in
the City of Houston, Harris County.” The
jurors were listed as John Lang, J. B. Perkins,
J. J. Sullivan, A. O. Harnett, J. A. Railey and
H. Yungst (It is unknown whether this was
HPD Officer Herman Youngst, who was killed
in the line of duty in 1901).
Authorities took Kyle Terry to the county jail.
As would be expected, the suspect’s accounts
differed greatly from those of the witnesses:
Terry stated that as he met Williams on the
street and the officer pulled his pistol. Terry
also freely stated that several of his “friends”
told him that Williams was “dogging him” and
had made threats against his life.
The Galveston Daily News of February 9,
1886 contained an interview with Terry, who
told the reporter that he was in Usener’s
saloon playing pool between 7 and 8 p.m.
with James Freeman, Judge Cox and A. C.
Bonds, all family friends from Brazoria
County. A slight disagreement took place with
Freeman. “We left and went over to Charley
Tharonat’s saloon when Officer Williams
came in after us and displayed his nippers
(slang for handcuffs), caught hold of me, and
said, ‘I want you.’ I told him, ‘You can take me
if you treat me like a gentleman, but you can
not take me under any other circumstances.”
The party then left the saloon and scattered
to different points, with Kyle Terry going to
Jones’ saloon. “Officer Williams followed
me,” Terry said, “and I told him that if I was
to be arrested, I would go with Officer Jack
White.”
The defendant later said that Williams
pulled his pistol on him the next morning on
the street, a point that all of the witnesses disputed with their accounts.
One of the night-before witnesses was listed
as Mike Floeck, believed to be the same individual who shot and killed Officer C. Edward
Foley on March 10, 1860. While there was a
strong movement to lynch Floeck on the
same day he killed Officer Foley, unfortunately cooler heads prevailed. The reasons why
Floeck was never properly processed through
the Houston legal system remain a mystery to
this day
Kyle Terry (White Male, 31) conducted business in Fort Bend County and resided in the
Fifth Ward with his family. He was the son of
General Frank Terry of Confederate Army
renown, the namesake of the famed Terry’s
Rangers from the Civil War days. The defendant Terry also came from a fighting family,
being a nephew of Judge A. W. Terry of
California. He was a first cousin of a member
of the most prominent law firm in Texas, that
of Balinger, Molt and Terry of Galveston. After
his arrest, he called this lawyer cousin for
consultation. This might explain the consider-
continued on page 21 (Officer Murdered)
Lawmen surround 25-year old Joe Alexander Thornburg after his capture following
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in an effort to elude police. He was fished from the water by officers aboard a game
warden’s airboat. (Police News Photo)
The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled
down his window.
“I’ve been waiting for you all day,” the cop said.
The kid replied, “Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could.”
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without
a ticket.
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reads, “Low Bridge Ahead.” Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of
him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles.
Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the
truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, “Got stuck, huh?”
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dren while Baker and Captain Chris
Kincheloe, who was then an investigator,
took Bridget over and over her statement
about what had happened, and the timing
of events that had led to Anna’s death.
“Mainly, we wanted to get an idea of
where Yost had gone,” Baker says. “He
had fled, and we wanted to put our hands
on him.”
As she talked to the officers, Bridget
added more and more to her original story
and tried to disassociate herself from the
crime, Baker says.
“Even then, the only emotion she had
was when we caught her in a lie,” he
remembers. “Then she would cry and say
she was sorry. There was no emotion at all
about Anna.”
Bridget eventually told the officers that
on the previous day the entire family had
gone to the flea market in Pasadena,
where Yost sold “odds and ends, such as
flashlight batteries.”
He generally took Anna there to “help,”
Bridget said, but that day the rest of the
family also went.
Anna complained that she did not feel well,
and told her mother she thought Yost “had put
something in her sandwich.” She complained of
a stomach ache, and Bridget took her to the restroom, but she was unable to use the facilities.
Bridget then told the girl to splash cold water on
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plaining, but at 2:00-2:30 p.m., he told a field and dumping her there, then reportBridget to take the girl home. When the ing her as a runaway, Bridget said, and
two of them reached the trailer, Anna lay when she again mentioned calling 9-1-1,
down. She was still feeling ill, and Bridget Yost threatened her, saying, “Don’t make
gave her some apple
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juice. Sometime later
already have.”
Anna threw up.
Baker and Kincheloe
Bridget told officers
obtained a warrant for
that at 4:00-4:30 p.m.,
Yost’s arrest on a
Yost came home, entercharge of injury to a
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She heard a loud
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small thumps, Bridget said, she heard says. “Nobody came in their house. He
Anna scream “Ouch,” and when Yost kept them cocooned. This made it difficult
came out of her room his demeanor was to find him.”
worried and he was teary-eyed.
Deputies checked by the trailer several
When she went into her daughter’s times that night, in case Yost returned, but
room, Bridget realized that Anna was not he did not. The next day they obtained a
breathing. She began to give her CPR, and search warrant, hoping something inside
Yost told her, “You can do that if you want the trailer would give an indication of
to, but Anna is gone.”
where he might go.
According to Bridget’s story, she started
They located two of Yost’s brothers in
to call 9-1-1, and James told her not to, Philadelphia, and one of them was helpful
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of help to local officers.
About 5 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, Baker
and Kincheloe left Brazoria County and
drove to Dallas, where they met with
Shing. They prepared a search warrant for
Yost’s vehicle, which the police had
impounded. After collecting evidence, they
took custody of Yost and brought him back
to Brazoria County.
During the investigation, they established that although the rest of the family
ate normally, and there was plenty of food
in the pantry, refrigerator and freezer,
Anna was forced to subsist on a diet composed solely of canned kidney beans,
beets, and sardines - “the kind that comes
in a big can for 50 cents,” Baker says.
“Once in a while, if she was good, he
rewarded her with a bologna sandwich.”
“Yost picked on those who had no one to
take up for them,” Baker says. “Her halfsister, Paige, had both a father and a
grandfather who would not allow Yost to
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not allow Anna to sit with the rest of the
family for meals, instead making her
father wasn’t in the picture.
“It’s hard to imagine the emotional stand at a kitchen counter and giving her
abuse that little girl went through,” he just five minutes to finish a meal of kidney
says, adding, “This was a very tough case beans, sardines and beets.
Yost kept Anna locked in a room by herto work.”
The grand jury indicted Yost for murder, self, Paige said, and “wouldn’t let me in
there.”
and after some delays,
Other testimony at the
including a lengthy suptrial “painted a picture of
pression hearing and seva domineering man who
eral changes of defense
forced his stepdaughter
attorneys, his trial began
to copy the Bible by
on Oct. 3, 2005.
hand, berated her with
Bridget Farmer, who
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Faye Gordon, negotiated didn’t cry, until she got caught. according to a news story
by Michael Wright, printa plea bargain to allow Bridget to testify for
ed in The Facts on Oct. 8. 2005.
the prosecution in Yost’s trial.
After arguments by the attorneys, jurors
A jury of seven men and five women was
seated, but one man was removed deliberated for a total of nine hours during
because he didn’t completely understand two days before finding Yost guilty of murdering Anna.
English.
After hearing what Baker calls an emoHe was replaced by one of the two altertional and impassioned victim impact
nate jurors.
Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri statement from Anna’s grandmother, Mary
Yenne prosecuted the case, which was McGrath, the jury took only 30 minutes to
held in Judge Pat Sebesta’s 239th District recommend that Yost be sentenced to life
Court. Yost’s lawyers were Jimmy Phillips in prison and a $10,000 fine, the maximum he could get, Baker says.
Jr. and Brooks Bass.
Attorneys for Yost have appealed his senAfter opening arguments, Galveston
County Medical Examiner Steven Pustilnik tence, with the appeals process “nearing
told the jury that Anna’s fatal injuries were the end,” Baker says.
inflicted less than 24 hours before her
death, and that internal bleeding was
caused by a foreign object less than an
hour before she died.
She could have been saved if she had
received prompt medical attention,
Pustilnik said.
Bridget did not actually call authorities
to report “a sick child” until several hours
after the girl’s death.
Pearland Police Officer Jason Myers testified that one of the EMS technicians at
the scene commented that “rigor mortis
had already set in,” by the time they
arrived.
Bridget Farmer testified that she had
lived with Yost for six years, and that she
had tried to cover for him when police Today, James Kevin Yost is 44-years old
arrived at the trailer home.
and is known in the Goree prison unit in
Paige Willis, Anna’s younger half-sister, Huntsville as Inmate Number 01333468.
provided some of the strongest prosecu- He was convicted of Murder on October
tion testimony in the trial, clearly revealing 13, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison.
the emotional and physical abuse Anna He will be eligible for a parole hearing on
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Remarks of Texas Ranger Joe Haralson
National Police Week Memorial Ceremony
Galveston County Law Enforcement Center
Galveston, Texas
May 15, 2007
n 1962, the 87th Congress of the United
States, issued a joint resolution, authorizing
then President, John F. Kennedy to proclaim the
week of May 15th of each year NATIONAL
POLICE WEEK and May 15th each year POLICE
OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY, in recognition of the men and women who, night and day,
stand guard in our midst to protect us through enforcement of our laws.
And it is for that purpose we have assembled. We are here to memorialize those police
officers, who have made the ultimate sacrifice, to honor and say thanks to those police
officers who have served honorably and retired, and to those who continue to serve.
The National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington DC has chiseled into it, the
names of over 17000 police officers killed in the line of duty. In the last 10 years, there
have been 1649 police officers killed in the line of duty in the United States. 145 officers
were killed in the year 2006. The average number of officers killed each year for the last
10 years is 165.
While the number of police officers killed each year is up and down, the number of felonious assaults against police officers continues to rise. There were 16, 072 assaults of
police officers which resulted in injury to the officer in 2006. The increased availability
and use of body armor and improved trauma care keeps the number of deaths from
being much higher.
The duties and responsibilities of a police officer are many and varied. A police officer
may issue a traffic citation to a good citizen, deliver a death message to the parents of a
child killed in a traffic accident, testify in court, listen to a citizen complain his stolen property has not been recovered, and get into a life or death struggle in a single shift. Police
frequently use terms such as, routine patrol, routine call, and routine traffic stop. Those
routine duties took the lives of 145 officers in 2006.
Since the first police department was created in Boston in the 1700’s, policing has
changed. Equipment has changed, philosophy has changed, and tactics have changed but the Mission remains the same. Many agencies have issued Mission Statements, and
they all differ somewhat, but the Mission of every police officer and police agency is or
should be, by all lawful means, to Protect the citizen they serve and their property, to
defend the defenseless, and arrest those who would take advantage of law abiding citizens.
And something else that has not changed, a life and death struggle between a police
officer doing his sworn duty and a criminal intent upon killing him is the same today as it
ever was. I have read that there is no more toxic environment than face to face combat.
When we speak of combat, we usually think of soldiers, God Bless Them. This was recent-
I
ly made real to us when Specialist Eddie Tamez, one of the Island’s own, was killed in Iraq
while serving with the United States Army ; but if you go forth daily, as a police officer
does, and put yourself between peaceful citizens and those who would do them harm and
not respect their rights, the possibility of a face to face, life or death struggle, is a reality.
A recent article in the Strafford, Virginia newspaper referred to Police Officers as Soldiers
in a War That Never Ends and I believe that is a good analogy.
Knowing this, men and women continue to join the ranks of police officers, serve their
community and put themselves in harms way. On September 11, 2001, 2726 Americans
were killed in the World Trade Center. Of those killed were 77 police officers and over
300 firemen. There are stories of heroic actions of citizens who survived the attack and of
those who did not survive, but those citizens were in the World Trade Center that day as
a matter of routine, they worked there and went there every day. Those 77 police officers, as were the firemen, were not there as a matter of routine, they, borrowing a line
from a dispatch General Custer sent from the battlefield at the Little Big Horn - Rode to the
sound of the musketry. And they did so willingly, not because of the adventure or the big
money, but because of a sense of duty.
There are currently over 800,000 police officers in the United States, and across this
country, on an almost daily basis, police officers are involved in life or death struggles that
make the OK Corral pale in comparison. The OK Corral was a different day and time
and police may have been looked at differently. CNN did not cover the OK Corral, but
everyone knows about it and know who the Earps and the Clantons were. The FBI
shootout in Miami and the North Hollywood Bank Robbery was front page for a couple
of days and was forgotten. I would be surprised if anyone here recognizes the names
Gerald Dove, Benjamin Grogan, William Matix, Michael Platt, Larry Eugene Phillips or
Emil Matasareanu.
This is reality, and if you think I have painted a picture of gloom, that was not my intention. Police Officers do what they do, they choose their station in life and few would trade
places with someone else.
In days of old, when Knights roamed the earth, and there really were Knights. I am sure
some of them were thugs, but Knights were known for their chivalry and honor. Each
morning they got up, donned armor, picked up a shield that bore the authority by which
they acted, and with a weapon on their side, went forth to do good deeds and protect the
citizens they served. The Chinese invented gun powder, and gun powder defeated armor,
and Knights disappeared from the earth. Today, across this country, police officers get
up in the morning, don armor, pin a shield upon their left breast that displays the authority by which they act, and with a weapon on their hip, go forth to do good deeds and protect the citizens they serve. These men and women are Knights in every sense of the word.
These modern day Knights, these Paladins, deserve the support and gratitude of the citizens of this country. And you police officers, there is no greater responsibility or higher
calling than that of a police officer, you have a sacred, solemn duty to live worthy and to
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Michael Durwood Griffith
Born: July 11, 1950
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Griffith was sentenced to die for the
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44-year old Deborah McCormick in
Houston.
He was a regular customer of the Always
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which McCormick operated with her mother at 3500 Mangum Road.
On the day of the murder, Griffith asked
McCormick for six long-stem roses and
then pulled a pistol and robbed her of
$400 and four credit cards belonging to
her father.
He then ordered her into a reception
room where he forced her to perform sex
acts. In the course of the sex assault,
Griffith pulled a butcher knife and stabbed
McCormick 11 times.
Griffith used one of the credit cards only
minutes after the murder. He used others
over the next three weeks to entertain his
girlfriends before he was arrested in possession of the cards and the murder
weapon.
On appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals upheld the conviction and death
penalty of Griffith, the only former lawman
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former Harris County deputy who had
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Education Level: High School
Cathy Lynn Henderson was convicted in
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She had been babysitting he and his 2
1/2-year old sister Megan for three
months prior to the murder and there had
been no incidents.
Upon the disappearance of Henderson
and the baby, a nationwide search ensued.
She was located in her home state of
Missouri.The body of Brandon Baugh was
found in a box buried in a shallow grave
outside Temple, Texas on February 8,
1994.
He had died days earlier on January
21st. An autopsy revealed he died from
head injuries that, according to the medical examiner, were not consistent with a
fall from Henderson’s arms as she had
claimed.
Gilberto Reyes was convicted in the
March 12, 1998 murder of his 19-year
old girlfriend.
Reyes picked the victim up at a
restaurant where she was working and
kidnapped her. He then drove her to a
remote area behind a business and
killed her by beating her in the head
with a blunt object. She was found dead
in the car and Reyes fled to Mexico.
Reyes had previously served 4 1/2
months of shock probation for
Aggravated Assault.
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Lionell Rodriquez
Born: February 1, 1971
Native of Fort Bend County, Texas
Occupation: Laborer
Rodriguez confessed to the murder for
which he was convicted. According to
Rodriguez’s confession, he became physically abusive in an altercation with his
mother and sister on the night of the murder. He then stole a shotgun and an automatic rifle from his stepfather and drove
around with his cousin, Jaime Gonzalez,
looking for a place to rob.
Rodriguez unsuccessfully attempted to
rob a gas station. While driving around,
Rodriguez became angry at another driver
and repeatedly fired shots at him. This
occurred in a residential neighborhood.
The other driver drove safely away and,
at a distance, turned his car around to
write down Rodriguez’s license plate number. Rodriguez jumped out of his car and
fired another shot at the other driver.
Rodriguez and Gonzalez continued driving. While stopped at a stop light,
Rodriguez noticed a young woman, Tracy
Gee, sitting alone in her car. He decided to
rob her and steal the car. He confessed to
shooting at her one time with the rifle. The
shot pierced the passenger side window
and Gee’s head fell forward. Her car started rolling, and Rodriguez jumped out of
his car and ran over to the other car. He
managed to get into the car and pushed
Gee out the driver side door onto the
street. He then drove off in the stolen car.
Gonzalez drove away from the scene, and
a police officer, Theron Runnels, pulled
him over. Gonzalez exited the car and,
after initially approaching the officer,
began to run. After a chase, a second officer, Randy West, arrested Gonzalez for
evading arrest. In the meantime, Runnels
found a rifle and shotgun in the car. When
West brought Gonzalez to Runnels so that
the latter could identify him, Gonzalez
shouted that he did not kill Gee but that his
cousin did. Rodriguez was arrested in the
victim’s car while fleeing the scene of the
crime. His pants were stained with blood,
and there was blood, bone, and brain matter inside the car. Rodriguez had brain matter in his hair. Police also recovered a fired
bullet from the victim’s car and found gunpowder residue in Gonzalez’s car. The gunpowder residue showed that a gun was
fired from inside that car.
An autopsy revealed a massive entrance
gunshot wound to Gee’s right temple that
had very large lacerations radiating
around it, and an exit wound with extensive lacerations on the left forehead. Gee’s
skull had massive fractures. Some of her
brain extruded through the wounds. Gee
lost some bone fragments from her skull
when she was shot. The cause of death
was the gunshot wound.
During Rodriguez’s sentencing, the State
presented evidence that Rodriguez shot at
the other driver. Officers Runnels and
West testified that, when West brought
Gonzalez to the scene of the crime where
Runnels was performing inventory on
Gonzalez’s car, Gonzalez stated that his
cousin, Rodriguez, killed Gee. The State
produced evidence that Rodriguez burglarized an elementary school in January
1990. Rodriguez received probation for
the burglary, but his probation was later
revoked. His probation officer testified
that Rodriguez was physically abused by
an alcoholic father during childhood. The
probation officer characterized Rodriguez
as having average to somewhat above
average intelligence and having the potential to do something with his life.
The State introduced records from the
Harris County Jail naming Rodriguez as an
“escape threat” and as “aggressive
towards staff,” instructing jail staff to use
handcuffs and leg irons when moving
Rodriguez from his cell. A Harris County
Sheriff’s Deputy testified that, during
Rodriguez’s incarceration at the Harris
County Jail on the capital murder charge,
there was a standing order that Rodriguez
was to wear leg irons and handcuffs when
he was out of his cell.
Rodriguez became belligerent to a jail
deputy while being brought to a visit with
his mother. Upon returning to his cell,
Rodriguez broke a window. There was also
evidence that while at Harris County Jail,
Rodriguez was frequently disruptive, and
jail staff tried to perform a daily search of
his cell for shanks or weapons. During one
of these searches, deputies found a homemade shank.
Veronica Vinton and her father testified
that, after Veronica refused Rodriguez’s
request for a date, Rodriguez stalked her.
Another witness testified that Rodriguez
assaulted him and damaged his car with a
baseball bat.
Other witnesses testified that Rodriguez
had a bad reputation for not abiding by the
law. Gee’s sister Susan offered victim
impact testimony. She testified that her
mother’s health was affected by Tracy
Gee’s death. She also described Tracy as
a person of integrity, and one who loved
children.
Patrick Bryan Knight
Born: January 12, 1968
Native of Potter County, Texas
Occupation: Laborer
Education Level: 9 Years (GED)
According to a June U.S. Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals opinion upholding his
conviction, Knight and Robert Timothy
Bradfield broke into the Werner’s home on
the Claude Highway east of Pullman Road
during the morning of Aug.26, 1991.
When the couple came home that
evening, the two men locked the pair in
their basement. About 24 hours later,
Knight gagged and blindfolded the couple
and drove them to Masterson Road in
Randall County, about four miles from
their home, according to the court.Knight
then made the couple get out of the van
and kneel, then shot the couple in the
back of their heads. He then dragged their
bodies into a ditch on the side of the road
and returned to his trailer and went to
sleep, the court said.
As Randall County deputies and officers
with the Potter-Randall Specia lCrimes
Unit began investigating the killings, they
questioned Knight, who lived in a trailer
house next door to the Werner’s home.
Knight initially denied involvement in the
killings, but he eventually led officers to
the location of the victims’ bodies, the
opinion said.
In 1993, a 47th District Court sentenced
Knight to die after convicting him in connection with the Werner’s deaths. The
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected
an appeal of his conviction in March 1999.
Knight’s co-conspirator, Robert Timothy
Bradfield, was sentenced to two life sentences in connection with the slayings and
he is eligible for parole in September
2009, according to the Randall County
Sheriff’s Office.
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the NCISD school board for about 13
years. His peers on the board elected him
president in a system whereby everyone
runs for a spot on the board. Then those
elected decide among themselves who will
be the leader, a system commonly used by
many school boards.
But that’s not the problem at NCISD. It
seems the problem is that while he was
serving as an elected trustee of the district
in 2003, he was also doing some home
building business, or something, in Uvalde
County, Texas, some 300 miles up the
road from New Caney. Although the
details have never been made clear, it
became known earlier this year that
Gregory had been arrested and charged in
Uvalde County with Misapplication of
Construction Trust Funds, a charge to
which he pled guilty in August of 2004.
Now, residents are fuming because for
more than four years, and through several
elections, it was never made public in New
Caney, or Montgomery County, that David
Eugene Gregory had admitted to a court in
Uvalde County that he had committed a
third degree felony crime.
However, had it been made known back
home in the New Caney School District, it
would not have prevented him from holding public office. And that is because the
judge in Uvalde sentenced Gregory to 10
years probation and placed the sentence
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means that if Gregory commits no criminal
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expunged. In other words, it would evaporate, go away never to be found again.
That also meant that as long as he
observed his probation in a lawful manner,
that there was no final conviction entered.
As the result of this use of Texas law, while
Gregory pled guilty to a felony offense, he
was not actually convicted of it. He is an
admitted felon, but not a convicted felon.
Therefore, he may continue to be elected
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Caney Independent School District.
From December 2003 when he was
Superintendent Rick Cowan. Did he
know of Gregory’s arrest in 2003?
arrested until December 2006 when it
became known back in New Caney,
Gregory’s arrest was a well kept secret, at
least from the voters in the NCISD. If any
of the school board members or administration officials knew about it they chose
not to make it public, and that is what has
many in the district fuming.
As if that were not enough, soon after
the revelation of his troubles in Uvalde, it
became known that in November of 2004,
two months before his arrest in Uvalde,
Gregory and his wife Mary Connie Gregory
filed a bankruptcy petition in the court of
Judge Marvin Isgur in the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Southern District of Texas in
Houston. In his petition, Gregory sought
relief from debts owing to 59 businesses
and individuals, including the New Caney
Independent School District, to which he
owed $5,000 in delinquent taxes.
How can a person be an admitted felon,
be delinquent on his taxes to the very
school district where he is an elected
trustee, and continue to be re-elected to
the board and chosen by the other
trustee’s as it’s president? That is the
burning question on the minds of voters in
the district today.
One of those persons is 60-year old New
Caney businessman Wayne Tullos. “The
only reason he’s been able to fool them
(voters) is two reasons: Number one,
because the news people, whether it be TV
or the newspapers, or whatever, don’t
want to step in on something because they
want to be politically correct and they
don’t want to sway an election, they say,”
said Tullos in an interview with The Police
News. “I believe that if the truth is reported and it sways an election, so be it. But
here, for some reason, nobody wants to
report it.”
Tullos said he gave a written statement
to a reporter from the local Conroe newspaper, “and they were supposed to publish
it before the election but they hid it
instead. They said they didn’t publish it
because it may sway the election.”
“The thing that gets me is how anybody
who is supposed to be our educators, or
people with intelligence who sit on the
school board, continue to support him and
re-elect him as president of the board.”
Tullos said.
According to Tullos, copies of Gregory’s
arrest records along with his police mug
shot, was mailed to each member of the
school board two weeks before the election. “And they still made him board president,” he said.
“How can a person plead guilty to a
$54,500 fraud and then sit up there controlling our school finances and everything
else?” Tullos continued. “And how in the
world can those people on the school
board, knowing that he owes $5,000 in
delinquent school taxes, elect him as president again?”
“I’ve been doing the state inspections on
school buses for years. Now that they
know how I stand, I’m waiting for them to
pull the school bus inspections away from
me,” he said.
Businessman Martin Wise, a Porter resident and partner in an underground utilities company, said “I asked for Gregory’s
resignation in February. Verbally, standing
at the podium with the microphone I said,
‘with your record and background myself,
my family, and my friends, do not feel that
you are a suitable roll model for the youth
or the future of our community and you
need to resign as of now.
“Everybody just sat there with their
mouths shut because they can’t respond
during the open forum at the board meeting. I would have to wait for a letter from
the school superintendent for any reaction
from board members.
“And when I got a copy of his mug shot
and plea agreement from Uvalde County, I
sent a letter to Rick Cowan
(Superintendent) with the details of
Gregory’s arrest, and spelled it all out
about when he was arrested, how much he
had to pay bond to get out of jail and what
his plea agreement was, his penalty and
how much restitution he’s got to pay.
“I put all that together and I mailed it to
each individual board member. I mailed it
to their homes, not the district office.
They got it in the mail on Thursday, the
day before the election,” said Wise.
When a Houston television station got
wind of the controversy going on in New
Caney, it sent one of its investigative
reporters there to cover a school board
meeting. When he and his cameraman
entered the meeting room they were met
and greeted by Gene Gregory. But as soon
as the nature of their visit became known,
they were promptly ejected from the meeting room and ordered to leave the property or face arrest.
The same TV reporter returned for the
Cindee Reynolds. What legal authority
does she have in NCISD?
meeting the following week and was
ordered out of the room and off the property by Cindee Reynolds who is reported to
be the Public Information Officer and secretary to the Superintendent Ron Cowan.
However, she is not listed anywhere on the
school districts website either by name or
position leaving many to wonder what
authority she has to order anyone to do
anything on school district property.
According to a reporter on the scene during that event, Reynolds was even giving
orders to NCISD Police Chief Troy Wooten
who IS listed on the website.
For continued updates on this story, visit
us online at www.gcpolicenews.com and
read more in our next edition in July.
Order in The Court
ATTORNEY: What is your date of
birth? WITNESS:
July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS:
Every year.
ATTORNEY: What gear were you
in at the moment of the impact?
WITNE SS: Gucci sweats and
Reeboks.
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia
gravis, does it affect your memory
at all?
WITNESS:
Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways
does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you
give us an example of something
you forgot?
continued from page 8 (Officer Murdered)
able news coverage given to this Houston incident by the Galveston newspapers of the day.
Several conditions became apparent after
numerous sworn witness statements involved
a number of reputable citizens. Henry
Williams and Kyle Terry had irreconcilable differences and were destined to meet a tragic
fate. Terry thought Williams was out to get him
and Williams, a man of some stature himself,
had told several other officers that Terry had
embarrassed him in the eyes of officers and
citizens. Something had to give, and it did.
The funeral took place on the afternoon of
February, 10, 1886. The remains were escorted to the gravesite at Glenwood Cemetery by
the police force in uniform as well as relatives
and a large number of friends. The pallbearers from the police force were Captain Jack
White, Dan Scanlan, A. C. Moreland, James
Furlong, J. Fitzgerald and George Gorham.
The station house was draped inside and
outside with white and black streamers, and
on the brick front was a large green wreath
with fourteen in the center in black figures.
The whole force showed deep respect for the
memory of its dead comrade. Wall and
Noland Undertaking took charge of the proceedings and conducted the funeral procession from Officer Williams’ house in the
Fourth Ward.
Henry Williams lived in Houston from boyhood. He was considered a reliable officer
and at the time of his death held one of the
most responsible night beats in the city. His
home was in the northern section of the ward,
where he left a wife and two or three children.
With obviously no pension or official support
for the family, a newspaper article of February
17, 1886 said, “Theo Pereira and Henry Ross
donated a large oil painting to be raffled off
for the benefit of the widow of Henry Williams.
It is now framed and on display in the Two
Orphans Saloon. Alex Erichson started the list
by taking ten chances at $1 each. Five hundred chances are to be taken. It is believed
that all the chances will be secured within the
next few days.”
While the entire life of Kyle Terry has not
been researched, it should be noted that this
was certainly not his first brush with the law.
The Houston Daily Post of April 6, 1883 listed
one Kyle Terry on the Criminal Court docket
of Harris County on an assault charge.
The criminal proceedings in the Williams
case began as early as February 17, 1886.
The prosecution was in the hands of Major
Frank Spencer, who had but few equals in the
South as a prosecutor. Kyle Terry, seated
dressed in a black suit, looked cool and collected and did not seem to manifest any
uneasiness during the proceedings. He was
represented by Messrs. Hutcheson and
Carrington, two of the finest lawyers in the
State of Texas. A number of witnesses testified at the preliminary hearing in this case. It
seemed like a case that could easily be
proved as a murder. However, due to the
defendant’s family ties, strange things started
to happen.
The fate of Kyle Terry will be revealed when
this story is concluded in the July issue of
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Women In Prison
How They Got There,
What They Do There
By Breck Porter
not to mention a couple of Theft charges
and the time she was filed on for failing to
tell a police officer that stopped her, that
she was a fugitive from justice. The law
says that if one is a fugitive and gets
stopped by the police, the fugitive must tell
the policemen that he or she is a wanted
fugitive. Of course, not many obey that
law either.
379 pounds of marijuana in a carry-on
bag on an airplane? “No problem,” she
said. “In fact, the Jamaicans insisted we
take it onboard, we could never check it
into the baggage compartment.
Jackson was a mule, a drug runner, for a
cartel of Jamaican drug lords. She would
stay busy flying loads of reefer to cities
throughout the U.S. and the Philippines.
“I would be paid $10,000 for every trip
inside the U.S. If I went to the Philippines
or anywhere where I would have to pass
through customs, I would get $25,000.”
Sure, it was easy money, but the risk factor was extremely high, as she later
learned.
35-year old Houstonian Leticia Jackson
has been in and out of jail for over 15
years. On August 1st she will be considered for parole for the first time, since
beginning a 25 year sentence for possession of 379 pounds of marijuana.
Today Jackson is confined in the Carole
Young Medical Facility near Texas City
where she has become an expert floor finisher through vocational education available to inmates there.
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Leticia Nanette Jackson, 35 – “The
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She is also a peer educator, and that
position carries a degree of status and
accomplishment within the institution. As
a peer educator, she helps new inmates
coming into the system adapt to their new
environment. Incoming inmates learn
from her how to live and get along with others inside the facility. They learn how to
coexist in a safe and healthy life style, and
how to avoid the pitfalls of living with other
convicts, some of whom prey on other
inmates and try to rule by intimidation.
“There are predators in here, and one of
the things I try to do is help women coming here avoid becoming victims of these
types,” said Jackson.
How did Leticia Jackson, at the young
age of 26 years, wind up facing 25 years in
prison? That was the obvious question we
asked during our recent interview with
three inmates in the wardens office at the
Carole Young Unit on Attwater Road, near
Texas City.
“I got caught carrying 379 pound of marijuana onto a plane at Houston
Intercontinental Airport,” she told us. This
is what landed her in prison this time but
her trip to the pen actually began in 1989
when she was 18-years old and was arrested for Possession of Cocaine, then there
was one arrest after the other from then
on.
There were a couple of Aggravated
Robbery charges that landed her in jail,
Major Don Bosco, Chief of Security and
Captain Velicia Burns, Food Service
Supervisor “While security is our primary responsibilty, patient care and the
well being of our inmates is a very high
priority,” says Bosco.
How does one get 379 pounds of marijuana into a carryon bag and take it
aboard a commercial airliner? “It’s compressed,” she said, as she described how
that much marijuana can be compressed
into a small block and easily be secreted in
a handbag. Marijuana is usually compressed into bricks weighing between 1040 pounds. Once it reaches its destination, the weed is reconstituted back to its
original density.
Like many inside prison walls, Leticia
Jackson was the product of a broken home
and a mother who was a drug addict. “But
when Mom died she was 56-years old and
she had been clean for 21 years,” she
said. “I am so thankful that I was here at
Carole Young. They made it possible for
me to be at my mother’s bedside in
Herman Hospital as she was dying. They
fixed me up with some nice street clothes
and fixed my hair, they were wonderful.”
She said that when it became apparent
continued on page 26 (Women in Prison)
SEX OFFENDERS — MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Convicted Sex Offenders are required by Texas law to
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If you have information that any of these offenders are residing at an address other than the one shown, please contact the listed police agency.
BRANDON, MICHAEL DEAN
Alias: Michael Dean Williams, Jr.
WM 10/04/1984 6-3 180
27850 Susie Ln., Apt. B, New Caney, Tx
Indecency with a child by exposure
(2 counts)Victim: Male Age 4
Risk Level: MODERATE
Montgomery County Sheriff
BROCK, KELLY MICHAEL JR.
WM 07/08/1974 6-4
17012085 FM-3083, Conroe
Victim: Female Age 13
CARDENAS, CARLOS
WM 02/11/1935 5-11
16518360 FM-1485W, New Caney, Tx
Indecency With a Child by Sexual Contact
(2 Counts)
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child (Rape)
Prohibited Sexual Conduct - Incest
Victims: Male Age 10 - Female Age 16
Risk Level: HIGH
BRAZIEL, JAMES
BM 05/28/1957 5-6
1308701 Silver City Loop, Conroe
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a child
(Rape)
Risk Level: HIGH
BROWN, BILLY GENE
BM 09/05/1970 5-7
170510 Paddock St., Willis, TX
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
(Rape)
Risk Level: HIGH
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Alias: Kenneth H. Werry
Nickname: Caddy
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DEFOOR, JAMES ROYCE
WM 12/17/1953 6-0
15518685 Singleton Rd. Montgomery, Tx
Indecency With A Child by Sexual Contact
Victim: Male Age 3
Risk Level: NOT AVAILABLE
HATCHETT, LOUIS ARNELL
Alias: Louis Willis
BM 08/07/1972 5-6
1505633 Spring Branch Cemetery Rd.,
Montgomery, Tx
Indecency With a Child by Sexual
Contact
Risk Level: HIGH
MEDELEZ,JOEY LUIS
WM 11/12/1983 5-5
16065 Brookflower, The Woodlands, Tx
Indecency with a child by exposure
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Alias: Felicia Lee Vaughn
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AMBROSE, ROBERT L.
White / Male Born: 09-23-1978
106 Prineess Ln. Angleton, Texas 77515
Charge: Agg. Sexual Assault of a Child
Indecency with a Child - Sexual Contact
Victims: Females Ages 13 & 14
Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office
CONTRERAS, ARTURO
Hispanic Male, Born: 03-09-1953
3310 County Road 870A, TRL A,Alvin, Tx.
77511
Agg. Sexual Assault child - Female - 6
Agg. Sexual Assault child - Female - 7
Risk Level: LOW
COOKS, CHARLES
Black / Male, DOB: 04-30-1980
243 FM 1462 W, Rosharon, Texas
77583
Indecency with a child - Sexual Assault Contact
Risk level: Moderate
HERNANDEZ, GILBERT RAY Hispanic
Male, BORN: 04-28-1972
1705 County Road 654-E, Brazoria, Tx.
77422
Indecency with a Child
Victim: Female 16 years old
Risk Level: LOW
KEMPER, GERALD
White / Male, DOB: 9-28-1959
1595 Wink Wynn Road, Alvin, Tx. 77511
Indecency with a child - Sexual Contact
(2 counts) Indecency with a child Exposure
Risk level: Low
REA, ALAN SANDFORD
White / Male DOB: 4-21-1959
2925 County Road 244 Brazoria, Tx.
Indecency with a Child - Sexual Contact
Victim: Female - 15yrs
Risk level: Moderate
SCHROETER, RANDY SULLIVAN
White Male BORN: 3-12-1965
20502 Highway 35 Sweeny, Tx. 77480
Indecency with a Child Sexual Contact
Victim: Female - Age 12
Risk Level -MODERATE
STOKES, JACK LEO
White Male, BORN: 11-16-1967
7531 Highway 35 S, Alvin, Texas 77511
Sexual Assault -Child (2 counts) Victims:
Females 5 & 7 Years Old
Risk Level: LOW
Stone, David Lee
DOB: 12-12-1951
16730 County Road 127 # 3, Pearland, Tx
Indecency with a child by Exposure Victim:
Male Age 14
Brazoria County Sheriff
YOAKUM, JAMES L
White Male, Born: 09/17/1966
327 County Road 486 # 7Jones Creek,
Tx. 77541
Indecency with a child by contact
Risk: moderate
SEX OFFENDERS — GALVESTON COUNTY
MATHIS, JOHN
BM 05/01/1941 5-7
1402905 Ave P (Downstairs) Galveston
Indecency with a child by sexual contact
(2 counts)
Victims: Females Ages 12 & 15
Risk Level HIGH
Galveston Police Dept.
NEWMAN, TOMMY GLEN
WM 11/13/1984 5-9
1955210 Highland Rd., Galveston
Aggravated sexual assault of a child
Victim: Male Age 6
Risk Level: HIGH
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250409 21st Ave. N., Texas City
Aggravated sexual assault of a child
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Prohibited sexual conduct (Incest)
Risk Level: Not available
Texas City Police Dept.
ROHRER, BRYAN KEITH
W/M 12/10/1965 5-10
235301 W. Independence, League City
Risk Level: Moderate
League City Police Dept
RODRIGUEZ ,ROSALIO
W/M 12/11/1975 5-7
2402511 29th St. Dickinson
(2 counts)
Risk Level: LOW
Dickinson Police Dept
ROSS, RONALD
Alias: Guillory, Joseph Freeman
W/M 03/26/1963 6-2
2453507 Orange, Texas City
Sexual assault of a child (2 counts)
Risk Level: Not available
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1504211 FM-1765, Apt 15., La Marque
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Victim: Male Age 11
Risk Level: Moderate
La Marque Police Dept.
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that her mother was not going to survive
the severe diabetes and enlarged heart,
the prison system transferred her to the
Carole Young Unit on a ‘trustee transfer’,
which would make it possible for her to
have contact with her mother during the
waning months of her life and to attend
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Jackson is praying for a favorable parole
ruling. If it is granted, she will parole to
her former mother-in-law who has stuck by
her during her imprisonment. She also has
15 and 18 year old sons in Houston. She
wants another chance to be their mother.
At the time of our interview, Jackson was
one of 461 inmates in the Carole Young
Facility,
345
women and 116
men. The facility
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Misty Trammel on tractor with Brenda Tener and Denice Gray are housed durwith power edgers, head out for a days work at the Carole Young ing pregnancy.
Facility. Everyone who is able has a job.
This is where
“I guess I just wanted people to accept babies are born to inmates and where the
me when I was young,” she said. “I need- mother-child bonding takes place under
ed money and I wanted to fit it. Then I met the supervision of not only prison personone of them Jamaicans in a club and nel, but also volunteers from the free
that’s when that started.
world.
“But when I got busted, they were
In June, The Police News will feature
nowhere around. I tried to call them to
another inmate and more information
make my bond and they wouldn’t even
about the Carole Young Facility, where
answer. My friends and family tried to
rehabilitation is actually more than just a
reach them and they were nowhere to be
sound bite.
found.”
Jackson’s Arrest Record:
Did you ever try to quit the drug running
December
1, 1989 - Possession of
business? “Yes, at one time I did but the
Jamaicans are killers. They would tell me cocaine - 2 years in Harris County Jail
May 6, 1994 - Theft - 90 days in Harris
that if I ever wanted to see my son again I
would do what they said. They wouldn’t County Jail
September 20, 1994 - Aggravated
care at all about killing me or my family.
Robbery - 10 years deferred adjudication
That’s the kind of people they are.
August 14, 1996 - Theft, second offense
The saddest part of being in prison is
that she was not able to attend the funer- - 18 months state jail
December 18, 1998 - Failure to identify
als of her grandmother or grandfather,
both of whom died while she was in Lane as a fugitive - 8 days Harris County Jail
October 29, 1999 - Unauthorized Use of
Murray maximum security unit in
Gatesville. “They raised me most of my life Motor Vehicle - 5 years Harris County Jail
March 22, 2000 - Possession 5 to 50
and it was very hard for me not being able
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to be there,” she related.
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[MISSING PERSON[
Alejandro Flores Jr. simply disappeared on Oct. 14, 1991, after leaving his home
in Brazoria County at 8 a.m. to go to work.
He is still missing, and his family is hoping someone can tell them what happened to him.
Flores, a Hispanic man born June 12, 1959, was five feet, seven inches tall and
weighed 195 pounds at the time of his disappearance. He had brown eyes,
although he was balding, what hair he had left was brown at that time. Possibly
his most distinguishing feature was a deformity of the upper left ear.
When he left his home at 4051 Baily Road in Manvel that October morning
almost 16 years ago, he was wearing light colored shorts, a light gray t-shirt, brown
work boots and a baseball cap.
Flores has never contacted any of his family members, who include his wife, a
daughter, and his mother, Mrs. Eva Senk, who lives in the Rio Grande Valley.
Criminal Investigator Paige J. Newsom of the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office
said that Flores had no criminal record other than a single count of driving while
intoxicated for which he was convicted in 1987.
Efforts to locate Flores have been extensive, including a trip to obtain DNA from
his mother to be placed into a missing persons database.
At the time of his disappearance he was working for T.U.E. Drilling, located in the
Pearland area. The firm erected large, concrete-base advertising signs of the kind
placed along Interstate highways. His employer there said Flores simply never
showed up at work on that October day in 1991.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Newsom at the Brazoria County
Sheriff’s Office at 979-864-2225 or the Texas DPS Missing Persons Clearinghouse
at 1-800-346-3243.
Cap’n Bob’s PROPERTY WATCH
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your property – whatever you need, whenever you ask.
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• Documented property inspections
• Inspect for Vandalism and Trespassing
• Arrange Cleaning/Maintenance/Repair
• Check HVAC Operation/Service Scedules
• Verify Security Lighting/Alarm Systems
• Storm Preparations
• and WHATEVER ELSE YOU NEED!
(409) 737-9504
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• Complete Diagnostics
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In May, The Fifty Club of Galveston County
presented awards to 15 law enforcement
officers from agencies throughout the
county. The awards ceremony is held
annually in May prior to National
Police Week.This year, Fifty Club
President Eugene Hornstein presented
each Officer of The Year an engraved plague
in appreciation of outstanding services rendered by the individual officer. An officer
is selected from each law enforcement
agency in the county each year for the
award.The presentations were made
May 7th during a luncheon in the Floral
Ballroom of the Moody Gardens
Convention Center.
Chief Ed Lucas and Sergeant Norman
Desormeaux,
Bayou
Vista
Police
Department
Chief Paul Shelley and Officer Crystal Marie
Garza, Clear Lake Shores Police
Department
Chief Ron Morales and Detective Tim
Cromie, Dickinson Police Department
Chief Robert Weiner and Officer Archie
Mizell, Friendswood Police Department
Chief Kenneth Mack and Officer Bobby
Johnson, Galveston Police Department
Sheriff Gean Leonard and Deputy E.D.
McKinney, Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
Chief Glenn Manis and Sergeant Larry E.
Crow, Sr., Hitchcock Police Department
Chief Deborah Kershaw and Officer Lynn
Holleman, Jamaica Beach Police
Department
Chief Johnny Freeze and Officers Greg
Nolan and Billy Williams, Kemah Police
Department
Captain Donald Head and Officer Danielle
Herman, La Marque Police Department
Chief Andrew Daniel and Officer Carl
Stoddard, League City Police Department
Captain John Cappadona and Officer Brett
Milutin, Galveston Port Authority Police
Chief Barry Cook and Officer Sean Vela,
Santa Fe Police Department
Captain Brian Goetschius and Officer
Rodney Todd, Texas City Police Department
Chief Jerry Wright and Lt. Adrian Sustaita,
Tiki Island Police Department

Police News June 07

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