The Great Santini

The Police News
VOLUME IX, NUMBER 1
Galveston County Edition
January 2012
The Great Santini
He Raped, Robbed, Murdered then Disappeared
By Breck Porter
The original Great Santini, was a hard
nosed, hard drinking, hell raising Marine, portrayed by Oscar winning movie
star Robert Duvall in a movie of the
same name. In the movie, Duvall, as
Marine Fighter Pilot “Bull” Meecham is
tough and arrogant and treats his wife
and kids as he would a bunch of Marine
recruits.
The only reason we call our Santini “Great” is because since 1983 the
League City Police Department, the
Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, the
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in
Florida, The FBI and the United States
Marshall’s Offices in Texas and Florida,
have all been looking for him and he is
nowhere to be found.
Donald Michael Santini made his
mark in Galveston County May 2, 1983
when he robbed a convenience store in
League City at knife point. On the day
of the robbery, Irene Hughes was working in Pam’s General Store at 358 Highway 517 in League City when a man,
later identified as Santini, came into the
store, sort of meandered around without
buying anything, and left. Minutes later
he came back into the store, laid a large
knife on the counter and demanded the
money from the cash drawer, which
Irene Hughes promptly handed over.
According to Hughes, Santini grabbed
the cash, fled into the parking lot and
escaped in a car that she described to a
tee, including the license plate number.
Irene Hughes turned out to be the kind
of witness that police officers always
hope for but seldom experience.
From the license plate number on
the get-away car League City police
officers Pat Bittner and David Ferrero
were able to track Santini to Rosharon,
a community near Sugarland, Texas.
When word reached Santini that he was
about to be arrested, he surrendered to
a Sugarland police officer with whom
he was acquainted. After his arrest, officers were able to recover $219 of the
$270 that Santini took in the robbery
and the clothes that he wore which was
described perfectly by Hughes.
The investigation and arrest was a
generally routine event for League City
Police. There was a good description,
a quick arrest, a confession, charges
filed, case closed. Police like these kind
of cases. After obtaining a written confession, Santini was booked into the
Galveston County Jail where he was
held until posting a $20,000 bond and
being release. That was the last time
anyone in Galveston County ever saw
Donald Michael Santini.
The following November, a young,
good looking stranger from Texas made
his appearance in the towns and villages
along the Manatee County seashore in
Florida where he got a job as a maintenance worker in a popular condo and
did odd jobs in the Longboat Keys community.
This stranger from Texas used the
name Michael Charles Stevens and
quickly introduced himself into the
young, party crowd which soon led to a
romantic relationship with a female employee of the condo. Investigators say
that although the man known as Stevens
maintained his own apartment, he spent
much of his time at the home of this new
found girlfriend and her minor son. Often he would drive the minor son to the
daycare center in the mornings or pick
him up in the evenings for the girlfriend.
During one of these trips to the daycare center, Stevens became acquainted
with Cynthia Woods, an employee of
the center. Almost immediately he began asking her for dates, however she
showed little interest in him. Cynthia, at
the time, was involved in a very contentious divorce with either her second or
third husband and dating was not something that stirred her interest. She was a
single mother of three and another man
was not high on her list of priorities.
Stevens continued to ask her out when
he had occasion to go to the daycare.
Investigators say that Stevens tried to
convince Cynthia to date him by pretending to be a relative of someone she
knew. Cynthia told her son, 13- year old
Tommy, that this man who came to the
daycare was bugging her to go out with
him but she had declined his invitations.
The divorce battle between Cynthia
Woods and her husband had become bitter. There were allegations that her son
Tommy from a previous marriage may
have been abused by the husband and
this got the Division of Family Services
involved.
After continued insistence from Mike
Stevens, Cynthia finally told her son that
she was going to relent and go out with
him just to get it over with and maybe he
would quit bugging her.
On Tuesday evening, June 5th, 1984,
Charles Michael Stevens arrived at Cynthia Woods home to pick her up for their
date. He came inside, spoke briefly to
Tommy, and the couple left. There was
no mention of where they were going or
what they planned to do on the so-called
date.Tommy watched his mother and
the stranger drive away in Stevens van.
Cynthia’s other two children were staying with their father, so that left Tommy
at home alone. When they drove away, it
was the last time Tommy saw his mother
alive.
The next morning, Cynthia’s sister
learned that Tommy had been home
alone all night and that his mother had
not returned from the date. This was
very much out of character for Cynthia
so the sister filed a missing persons report with the Manatee County Sheriff’s
Office in Bradenton.
Donald Michael Santini
By coincidence, on Wednesday morning a caseworker with the Division of
Family Services went to Woods home
on an investigation concerning allegations leveled in the divorce case. The
caseworker discovered Tommy at home
along and began contacting friends and
relatives. Tommy could only tell authorities that his mother had gone out
with a guy named Mike that she met at
the daycare center and that he was supposedly a relative of someone she knew.
Investigators would later learn that this
was a story fabricated to entice Cynthia
out on a date.
Everyone who knew Cynthia became
alarmed. Authorities became alarmed
because they were desperately trying
to capture a serial killer who had been
dumping the bodies of his female victims in adjoining Hillsborough County.
Four days later Cynthia Wood’s body
was found by two young girls riding
bicycles, floating in a ditch in Hillsborough County, not far from where police
had discovered the bodies of two other
women murdered weeks before. Immediately newspapers, radio and television
began reporting the discovery of another female body in the same area where
previous corpses had been found. The
Great Santini...Cont. on pg 4
Puzzle - Is It
An Office or
Department?
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I’ve written on this before several years
ago and got mostly jerk-water responses
or “who cares?” and that sort of thing.
On a serious note I had a retired Sheriff’s Captain from a Texas Sheriff’s
OFFICE correct me one time when I
referred to the Sheriff’s OFFICE as the
Sheriff’s DEPARTMENT. He says, “it
is NOT a DEPARTMENT it is an OFFICE just like other elected county offices,” and here is the argument about
that.
There is the:
County Clerk’s Office, not a County
Clerk’s Department
County Judge’s Office, not a County
Judge’s Department
County Tax Assessor-Collector’s Office, not a Department
Constable’s Office, not a Constable’s
Department
On the official website of Galveston
County it lists the Galveston County
Sheriff’s OFFICE not a Galveston
County Sheriff’s DEPARTMENT.
With that being said, it begs this question. Why does the media, that Lord
High Institution which opins to us on
everything from how to govern our cities and counties, to how raise our kids,
refer to a SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
on a regular basis? These people of
wisdom (or so they think) are quick to
correct others, advise others, and on a
daily basis give their unsolicitied and
unwanted opinions about everything,
including the weather, yet in this case,
they apparently cannot get it right when
it comes to the Sheriff’s OFFICE.
If you have a really legitimate answer
to this question, we would like to hear it.
Just type it in below and send it. Don’t
bother to show us how cute you are or
tell how stupid our question is cause we
will delete it.
Thanks readers,
Breck Porter, Editor
______________________________
An elected official heads an Office.
An appointed official heads a Department.
Posted by Captainbob at 12/27/2011
7:40:39 AM
---------------------------------------------To answer the first part of the question
we can turn to Black’s Law Dictionary,
which defines the terms as follows:
Department – “one of the major divisions of the executive branch of the
government…generally a branch or division of governmental administration.”
Office – “a right and correspondent duty
to exercise public trust. A public charge
of employment…the most frequent occasions to use the word with reference
to a duty and power conferred on an individual by the government, and when
this is the connection, public office is a
usual and more discrimination expression… in the constitutional sense, the
term implies an authority to exercise
some portion of the sovereign power
either in making, execution, or administration of the laws.”
Clearly, the Office of the Sheriff is not
simply another department of county
government. Its internal operations are
the sole responsibility of the Sheriff.
County department heads are subordinate to a county governing body because they are truly only a division of
county government.
The Office of Sheriff, on the other hand,
is a Constitutional office that has exclusive powers and authority. These powers are not subject to the dictates of a
county governing body. The powers of
this office have been exercised for over
a hundred years.
A Sheriff’s Office then is fundamentally
different from a county department that
derives its limited authority from whatever is delegated to it. Those individuals
who hold an elected position, or office,
in the governing body make this delegation.
The use of department substitutes a term
meaning a subordinate unit of government rather than using a term that unmistakably signifies its inherent powers
and sovereignty.
Posted by Mike Bell at 12/27/2011
9:15:42 AM
---------------------------------------------Breck, you hit the nail on the head; it’s
the media, most of the time they speak
without understanding what they are
talking about. They assume that since
there is a Police Department, Department of Public Safety then the Sheriff
has to be a department. You are correct
in your analogy Elected Officials hold
office, department heads are appointed.
Posted by Ronny869 at 12/27/2011
11:14:40 AM
---------------------------------------------It is the Sheriff’s Office, frequently abbreviated “SO” or “GCSO.”
Under the Commissioners’ Court and
the County Judge and Commissioners’
offices they have Departments and Divisions.
The Sheriff’s Office has divisions. The
Corrections Division, Patrol Division,
etc.
Puzzle..Cont.on pg 9
Busted and Cuffed
GARZA, FELIX
DOMINIC
MURDER, ASSAULT W/
DEADLY WEAPON
AGG ASSAULT DEADLY
WEAPON
ALVAREZ, HECTOR
LUIS
POSSESSION OF
FIREARM BY FELON
AGGRAVATED
ROBBERY
ATWOOD, AMANDA
LOUISE
TAMPERING W/GOV’T
RECORD
ENGAGING IN
ORGANIZED CRIME
CALHOUN, BRANDI
NICOLE
ENGAGING
ORGANIZED CRIME
FRAUDULENT USE ID
DRUG POSSESSION
MANNING, ERIC
WAYNE
DRUG POSSESSION –
3 CNTS-POSS
MARIJUANA, FIREARM
BY A FELON
MANUS, MARK DANIEL
FELONY THEFT – 4
COUNTS
SALAHUDDIN,
BANDAR MUHAMMED
FELONY EVADING
ARREST
PROHIBITED
WEAPON SWITCHBLADE/KNIFE
TUCKER, TRENT
AUSTIN
BURGLARY VEHICLE
– 9 CNTS, FIREARMS
SMUGGLING
FELONY ESCAPE
HERNANDEZ, ROBERT
BERNARD
POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA
DRUG POSSESSION –
2 COUNTS
PHILLIPS, DANIEL CURTIS
FORGERY & FRAUDULENT
USE OF ID, TAMPERING W/
GOV RECORD, ENGAGING
ORGANIZED CRIME,
UNAUTHORIZED USE
MOTOR VEHICLE
UNLAWFUL POSS FIREARM
BY FELON
BIAGAS, LATONYA
MARIE
DEBIT CARD ABUSE
EREKSON, BRUCE
EDWARD
DRUG POSS, EVADING
ARREST
TAMPERING W/
EVIDENCE, POSS
MARIJUANA
FOURCADE, ASA
AARON
POSSESSION OF
FIREARM BY A FELON
DRUG POSSESSION
GAINES, MARK
GREGORY
DRUG POSSESSION
TAMPERING WITH
EVIDENCE
LOWE, JOHNNY JOE
POSSESSION OF A
FIREARM BY FELON
DRUG POSSESSION
MILLIKAN,
CHRISTOPHER SHANE
FALSE STATEMENT TO
OBTAIN CREDIT
DRUG POSSESSION
ENGAGING IN
ORGANIZED CRIME
HAMILTON, BRANDON
MICHAEL
FELONY EVADING
ARREST - 2 COUNTS
LATHAM, CHARLES
LEWIS
BURGLARY OF A
VEHICLE WITH PRIOR
CONVICTIONS
EMBRY, RICHARD
SHANE
FELONY THEFT WITH
TWO OR MORE
CONVICTIONS
LEDE, PAUL RAYNAL
CREDIT CARD ABUSE 2 COUNTS
WILLIS, JOHNATHAN
LEEDEL
FAILURE TO
REGISTER AS SEX
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public was left to assume that the serial
killer had claimed another victim.
Investigators could not immediately
identify the body. It had been floating
in water in the hot temperatures of summertime in Florida. There was no identification on the body, nothing to help
figure out who she was.
A couple of days later Cynthia Woods
estranged husband called the Sheriff’s Office. “My wife and I are going
through a divorce and she’s missing,”
he told a detective. “I’m wondering if
that is her that they found in Hillsborough County,” he said. That sent Hillsborough County investigators heading south to Bradenton to talk with the
husband. During their conversation the
husband provided some information
that suggested to detectives that the recently discovered body was in fact Cynthia Woods, but there was not enough at
that point to positively identify her. Her
physical state was such that the detectives chose not to show him photographs
of the dead woman. The end result of
their conversation with the husband was
that they now had a pretty good idea that
the body was Cynthia Woods. Now all
they had to do was to verify it.
Investigators contacted Cynthia’s dentist in Pennsylvania where she had lived
before moving to Florida, and asked that
dental records be sent to them. But before they got the records, they learned
through family members that when
her last child was born in the hospital
in Manatee County, her fingerprint was
taken as a routine hospital procedure.
That fingerprint was matched with one
taken from the body in the morgue and
it confirmed the identity of Cynthia
Woods.
Now the investigation had moved
south to Manatee County because
that was where everyone connected
to Cynthia Woods lived and worked.
The only reason Hillsborough authorities assumed the investigation was because Woods body was dumped in their
county. In some states jurisdiction may
be assumed by police in the jurisdiction
where the murder occurred or where the
body is discovered. “Here we work’em
where we find’em,” a detective told us.
Investigators from Hillsborough County, headquartered in Tampa, spent many
hours and days over in Manatee County
conducting the investigation.
As the investigation progressed, detectives learned that the man calling
himself Michael Paul Stevens was really not related to anyone in town as
he had claimed when trying to hook up
with Cynthia Woods. In fact, he wasn’t
kin to anyone in Florida, “In talking
with some of those people it turned out
that this guy Mike had been in Florida
since about November and had been
hanging around the beach community
and working around there doing odd
jobs here and there,” a detective said.
“He worked around Longboat Key and
Bradenton but mostly he was a mystery
man,” he said. Detectives could find no
one who ever knew that Michael Paul
Stevens was not the mystery mans real
name. The only thing they learned is
that he had told people that he was from
Texas and that he had been in the Army
at one time. Supposedly he had been
prosecuted for rape while in the Army
and was dishonorably discharged. Federal authorities would not confirm the
rape story citing confidentiality of military records. However, they would confirm that he had been booted out of the
Army with a dishonorable discharge.
“As we continued to talk with the girlfriend and others, we begin to get evidence that Stevens had been contracted
or hired, to discredit Cynthia Woods’s
reputation,” an investigator told us.
“The obvious suspect in that scenario
was the husband, but the investigation
did not validate that,” he said. “We have
information, whether it’s creditable or
not, that someone, not necessarily the
husband, saw a benefit in having Ms.
Woods’s reputation compromised,” said
the detective. “If we believe our information, we have no doubts he was contracted to injure her reputation, in fact
we validated that he actually attempted
to by planting drugs on her. That is our
information. The motive actually circles
around this contract, this hiring of Mike
Stevens to damage or compromise her
reputation,” continued the detective. “I
won’t go into the specifics of how he
was supposed to discredit her. The story
of him planting drugs may or may not
be true but we do have it on good information that Stevens was hired to injure
her reputation.”
“That explains many things. That explains why this man, Mike Stevens, who
already has a girlfriend, is going out
on a date with another woman. And of
course the big mystery is we don’t know
what his intentions were but we had the
information that he was hired to make
the date and take her out,” he said.
“We know there was a failed attempt
at the drug planting because there had
been a failed attempt once before. We
don’t know whether he attempted to do
something similar again or whether he
took it to a new level by killing her or
whether he was actually hired to kill her.
That part we don’t’ know. We just know
that the reason for his coming in contact
with her in the first place was to damage
her reputation. So they wind up going
out on a date and she never came back,”
related the detective.
As detectives continued to talk with
the girlfriend, she finally told them that
on the night of the date Stevens returned
to her house and that while the two of
them were having sex he revealed to her
that he had killed Cynthia and dumped
her body where the other victims had
been found hoping to throw police off
his trail. After revealing that information to her, she said Stevens immediately left town.
With this information, detectives obtained a search warrant for the man’s
apartment. There they found an applicaGreat Santini...Cont. on next pg.
tion for a bank account and fingerprints.
The application had a persons name in
Texas as a reference. The fingerprints
were sent to the FBI where they matched
the fingerprints of Donald Michael Santini, the man who months earlier had
robbed a convenience store in League
City, Texas. Florida authorities obtained
fingerprints and mug shot photographs
from League City Police and that made
the connection.
It was June 16th before he was finally
identified as Santini, eleven days after
the murder of Cynthia Woods. With the
new identification and evidence, first
degree murder charges were filed in
Hillsborough County, Florida.
Santini has been on the run for over
21-years. Once he is arrested, it is the
hope of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office that they will have enough
evidence to charge the person who allegedly hired Santini.Since fleeing Florida Santini is believed to have traveled
to Kentucky, Texas, Nevada and California. He may visit Pasadena from time
to time where he has relatives.
Santini has used alias of Donald
Chapman, John Michael Trimble, Steve
Buice, Charles Michael Stevens and Joseph Brewster. Originally blond, Santini’s hair was graying in 1984 – it may
now be white. He was known to dye his
hair brown or blond and he has a mole
or a birthmark below his Adam’s apple.
Donald Michael Santini has worked
as a laborer, electrician, landscaper and
painter. He plays the guitar and writes
songs, likes to imitate Elvis Presley and
is proficient in karate. He was reportedly
convicted of rape while in the Army in
Frankfort, Germany, idolizes the Green
Berets, likes being around horses, and
drinks Jack Daniels whiskey.
The Sheriff’s Office in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida and the
League City, Texas Police Department
would like to here from anyone who has
any information about Donald Michael
Santini. In addition to the murder warrant in Florida, the Galveston County,
Texas, Sheriff’s Office holds a warrant
for the Aggravated Robbery in League
City and for Failure to Appear for trail
in the 122nd State District Court. The
F.B.I. has a warrant for his arrest for
Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution
for Murder. The two men, who posted a
$20,000 bail bond for Santini, forfeited
that bond and paid Galveston County
the money in June of 1984, 13-months
after the League City robbery and just
days following the murder in Florida.
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INMATES AWAITING MURDER CHARGES FROM 2011
Arthur Henderson Ellis, 27, is
in Galveston County Jail waiting
trial for the murder on January
14, 2011 of Christopher John
Demangin during a robbery at a
waterfront home on Beluche Drive
in Galveston. Demangin, of Houston, was doing electrical work
on the home following Hurricane
Ike when he was shot to death in
the front yard. Four accomplices
were also arrested and charged
with Aggravated Robbery.
Paul Anthony Crayton, 43, is in
Galveston County Jail awaiting his
trial for the shooting murder of
James M. Martin, Jr., 38, in Texas
City. That killing took place May
23, 2011 outside the Bourbon
Street Bar & Grill. Crayton is also
accused of shooting at another
man in the men’s room inside the
bar.
Ronald Justin Reeves, 27, has
been sitting in Galveston County
Jail since November after Dickinson Police charged him with shooting 37-year old Marty Scott Ratton
to death after the two had a spat.
Ratton’s body was found by the
railroad tracks in the 3600 block
of Hill Street in Dickinson. Reeves
may go to trial this year.
Galveston Police say 48-year old
Randy “Bootsy” Owens, of Angleton, whipped out a gun a shot Terrance Mike, 30, as the two drove
down 40th Street in Galveston.
Mike was driving and crashed his
truck into a light pole and a tree
after being shot. Police say it was
the culmination of a drug deal. Owens is still in jail until trial.
Deputy Claus Visits 400 Children With Christmas Joy
Special to The Police News
GALVESTON COUNTY - The Galveston County Citizen Sheriff’s Alumni along with the Galveston County
Sheriff’s Office held their 6Th Annual
Deputy Claus Program. The program,
coordinated by Deputy Tammy Harper,
President of the Citizen Sheriff’s Alumni provides toys to the needy children in
the unincorporated areas of the county.
This years efforts provided Christmas
for 115 families including about 400
children. Families are selected by the
school counselors and social workers
from the elementary schools in the unincorporated areas of the county along
with Deputies who come across those in
need.
The School Liaison Sheriff’s Deputies
along with the students, parents, teachers and administrators begin gathering
toys in November each year, holding
toy drives in the Clear Creek Indepen-
dent School District, which is their
biggest
contributor. Donations from
individuals in the
community
also
help to purchase
the remainder of the
toys needed for the
children. Those toys
are then purchased
at the League City
Wal Mart where a
discount is provided.
Deputy Harper
then contacts the
families to invite
them to attend the
event which was
held this year on
December 17 at the
new Deputy Sheriff’s
Association/
Citizen
Sheriff’s
Alumni room in the
La Marque Outlet
Mall.
Citizen Sheriff’s
Alumni
members
along with Clear Brook High School
JROTC students helped parents select
toys while the children were entertained
by Deputy and Mrs. Claus, cookie decorating and wagon rides provided by
Horseshoes from the Heart. Lt. Tommy
Hansen brought the race car from the
Tropical Impression Racing Youth Outreach Program. The car encourages kids
to stay in school and off drugs and alcohol and teach them about the dangers of
illegal street racing.
The Citizen Sheriff’s Alumni would
like to thank everyone that contributed
to making this year a Very Merry Christmas for those in need.
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BLUE SANTAS
The Lighthouse Charity Cooking Team provided good food
for Blue Santa volunteers and donors at The Roof Garden
in downtown Galveston
Wow! Where did all this wrapping paper come from?
Even the kids helped wrap the hundreds of gifts for
Galveston Blue Santa
Officer Joey Quiroga IS Galveston’s Blue Santa. Shhhhh!!!!
Dozens of Galveston boys and girls got brand new
bicycles from Blue Santa
Texas City Police Chief Robert Burby playing
Santa Claus
The Chief that ‘Keeps On Ticking’
Texas City Police Cpl. Neal Mora packing presents
Some say Burby may have been recruiting this youngster
The entire Texas City PD Blue Santa crew
Officer Rick Valdiva making this little girl happy
Santa came in a police car pulling a trailer
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BLUE SANTAS
Texas City Officers unloading gifts from the Santa trailer
What boy don't want a bicycle for Christmas?
Who's that in the Santa hat?
Here they come with gifts for another family
See the smile. Texas City Police brought many this Christmas
They don't look like Santa or cops. Who are they?
January Execution
On February 19, 1994, in San Antonio,
26-year old Rodrigo Hernandez abducted 38-year old Susan Verstegen from
a grocery store parking lot. Hernandez
restrained her
by choking
her and then
he sexually
assaulted her.
When Hernandez realized Verstegen was not
breathing, he
hauled
her
Rodrigo Hernandez
body to a park
and left her in a garbage can.
Hernandez, convicted of the rapeslaying of Verstegen whose murder
went unsolved for eight years.
Hernandez, now 34, was arrested in
2002, more than eight years after the
woman’s body was found stuffed into a
55-gallon drum behind a church in San
Antonio.
Hernandez was about to be released
from a Michigan prison when a then
new law there required him to submit
a DNA sample as a condition of his release. San Antonio police, using a national DNA database, matched his DNA
to the Verstegen slaying. In his appeal,
Hernandez challenged the validity of
his conviction and sentence.
Barring a last minute stay, Hernandez
will be executed in Huntsville, Texas on
January 26, 2012.
Registration Open for
Galveston’s Citizens
Police Academy
this training, a criminal history check is
required.
Download a brochure and application
from the City's website, www.cityof-
galveston.org. Questions about the program should be directed to Sgt. Destin
Sims, office: 409-765-3606; email:
[email protected].
Free 12 Week Program
Educates, Trains Islanders
Galveston, Texas -Registration is now
open for the Galveston Police Department's 28th Citizens Police Academy.
The 12 week course brings police officers and the local community together
in an educational setting that provides
participants an in-depth overview of the
department and its day-to-day operations.
Course topics include patrol and traffic enforcement, internal affairs, use of
force, criminal investigations, narcotics
and vice, as well as crime scene investigation and many others.
This free program will be offered
weekly this spring. If you are at least
18 years of age, live or work in the City
of Galveston, and would like to better understand how the police department serves the community, this is your
chance to find out!
WHAT: 28th Galveston Police Department Citizens Police Academy
WHEN: First class meets Thursday,
February 9
Classes continue every Thursday for the
next 11 weeks
6:00 - 8:30PM
WHERE: Mount Olive Missionary
Baptist Church
3602 Sealy Avenue
Due to the sensitive subject matter of
The Police News - Page 7
Galveston Co. Grand Jury Indictments in December 2011
ALMEIDA, KODI HAZE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
ALVAREZ, HECTOR LUIS - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY A FELON & AGGRAVATED ROBBERY JAIL
AMORES, KELLY MARIE - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
ATWOOD, AMANDA LOUISE - TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD & ENGAGING IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
BAUGH, SHANNON EZEL - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO-WIT: COCAINE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER
BECERRIL, RAUL - FORGERY
BENCOMO, LESLIE ISABEL - ABANDON/ENDANGERING A CHILD
BENNETT, DEXTER JEROME FELONY ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY FAMILY VIOLENCE BY STRANGULATION
BIAGAS, LATONYA MARIE - DEBIT CARD ABUSE
BRAND, WILLIAM RAY - FELONY THEFT
BROOKS, DONALD THOMAS II - DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED WITH CHILD PASSENGER
BURNETT, BRANDON LEE - CREDIT CARD ABUSE
CALHOUN, BRANDI NICOLE - ENGAGE IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY,
FRAUDULENT USE OF ID & POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
CARTER, KELLY LASHELL POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
CONLEY, THOMAS JAY - FELONY THEFT
CONRAD, JESSE ROSANNA - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (3 COUNTS)
CUADRA, DELVIN ALBERTO - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE BOND
DAVIS, ASHLEY MICHELLE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE & POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
EMBRY, RICHARD SHANE - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE CONVIC
TIONS
EREKSON, BRUCE EDWARD - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUB
STANCE, FELONY EVADING ARREST DETENTION WITH VEHICLE,
TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE JAIL & FELONY POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
FORD, TERRY WADE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
FOURCADE, ASA AARON - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY A FELON & POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
GAINES, MARK GREGORY - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN DRUG FREE ZONE & TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
GIMBLET, DENNIS - FELONY THEFT
HERNANDEZ, JUAN GABRIEL - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
HUGHES, JOE DESHAWN - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
JAMES, ISAAC RESHARD - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON
JOHNSON, ZACHARY TYLER - BURGLARY OF HABITATION
JONES, COURTNEY TERRELL - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUB
STANCE
JONES, DANIEL MARK - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
KINCHEN, WENDIYA - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE
KNAPP, CHRISTOPHER CORT - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
LATHAM, CHARLES LEWIS - BURGLARY OF A VEHICLE WITH TWO OR MORE PRIORS
LEDE, PAUL RAYNAL - CREDIT CARD ABUSE (2 COUNTS)
LOWE, JOHNNY JOE - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY FELON & POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
MANNING, ERIC WAYNE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER (3 COUNTS) ,
MANNING, ERIC WAYNE - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA & UNLAWFUL
POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY A FELON
MANUS, MARK DANIEL - FELONY THEFT <$1,500 WITH TWO OR MORE CONVICTIONS (4 COUNTS)
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MARTONE, ROXANNE DENISE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUB-
STANCE
MCCLENDON, DANIELA MARIE - ENGAGE IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
MCLAUGHLIN, TIMOTHY PATRICK - FELONY ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY FAMILY VIOLENCE BY STRANGULATION
MILLIKAN, CHRISTOPHER SHANE - FALSE STATEMENT TO OBTAIN CREDIT, POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE & ENGAGING IN
ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
NEWTON, EARL DRAKE - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
PHILLIPS, DANIEL CURTIS - FORGERY, FRAUDULENT USE OF ID, TAMPER
ING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD, ENGAGING IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MOTOR VEHICLE, UNLAW
FUL POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY A FELON & FRAUDULENT USE OF ID
PORTER, ELIZABETH TENISON - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
RAMIREZ, STEVE - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON (2 CNTS)
RICHARDS, KIMBERLY ANN - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
RODRIGUEZ, VICTOR - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON
ROWLAN, CHRISTOPHER EARL - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE & OBSTRUCT RETALIATION
SALAHUDDIN, BANDAR MUHAMMED - FELONY EVADING ARREST
DETENTION WITH PRIOR & PROHIBITED WEAPON SWITCHBLADE/KNIFE JAIL
SAWYER, FLOYD RANDOLPH - ENGAGE IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
SCHMIDT, TYLER HANSEN - TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
SEWELL, TAMIKA LESHAWN - FORGERY
SIMPSON, JEMMA ASHLEY - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
TENISON, KATHERINE LUCILLE - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
THOMAS, BRIAN DOUGLAS - OBSTRUCT RETALIATION
TUCKER, TRENT AUSTIN - BURGLARY OF VEHICLE WITH TWO PRIORS (10 COUNTS), FIREARM SMUGGLING, FELONY ESCAPE WHILE ARRESTED OR CONFINED
VASQUEZ, ARMANDO - OBSTRUCT RETALIATION
VERCHER, CHRISTOPHER GRADY - BURGLARY OF HABITATION
WAGNER, MICHAEL JAMES - THEFT OF COPPER
WHITE, STEVEN P - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
WILKERSON, BRANDI LEANN - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
WILLIAMS, CURTIS LEE - FELONY ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY FAMILY VIOLENCE BY STRANGULATION
WILLIAMS, RODRICK ODELL - UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MOTOR VEHICLE
WILSON, ANGIE LANETTE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER
WOODS, BRANDON SCOTT - ENGAGE IN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
WRIGHT, JASON SHEA - UNAUTHORIZED USE OF MOTOR VEHICLE
BERRY, WILLIAM HAROLD - FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER
BOYER, MARC PIERRE - FORGERY
BROOKS, CARMAN - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE CONVICTIONS
BURNS, VERNON JR - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
BURTON, JEREMY DEWAYNE - BURGLARY OF A HABITATION (2 COUNTS)
BUTTS, DAVID GEORGE - INDECENCY WITH A CHILD
CAILLETEAU, KEVIN BRIAN - BURGLARY OF BUILDING
CARDWELL, TRAVIS WILLIAM - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE
CASKEY, JOSHUA ALEXANDER - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCE
CHAVEZ, LILIANA - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
CLARK, CHRISTOPHER CHASE - FELONY THEFT
CLARK, JOHN BRINCE - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
COMPEAN, ANGEL LEE - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON (2 COUNTS)
COWAN, RANDY LEE - FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER JAIL
CRIDLAND, MISHA ALONDRA - INTOXICATION MANSLAUGHTER (2 COUNTS)
DANIELS, MARRINETTE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
FRANKLIN, LISA - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE <1G IN DRUG FREE ZONE
GARZA, FELIX DOMINIC - MURDER, & AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON (2 COUNTS)
GIPSON, PRESTON JEROME JR - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCEWITH INTENT TO DELIVER
GOINS, ARTHUR LEE - THEFT OF COPPER
GONZALES, CHRISSTIE ANN - INTOXICATED ASSAULT WITH VEHICLE
GUEL, JESUS DOMINGO - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE & FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED JAIL
GUIDRY, DAVID DWAYNE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
DRUG FREE ZONE & TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE JAIL
GUILLORY, CARL SCOTT - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE
CONVICTIONS
HALL, DON HARVEY - FORGERY
HAMILTON, BRANDON MICHAEL - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE (2 COUNTS)
HARDEN, LINC LAVONNE - THEFT OF COPPER
HAYNES, JIMMY GLEN - FELONY ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY FAMILY VIOLENCE BY STRANGULATION
HERNANDEZ, ROBERT BERNARD - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA &
POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (2 COUNTS)
HOLCOMB, GREGGORY AARON - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE (2 COUNTS)
HOLLAND, ARIAS DARNELL - THEFT OF COPPER JAIL
HUDETTS, STEPHEN LOYD - ACCIDENT INVOLVING SERIOUS BODILY INJURY OR DEATH
IRISH, FABIAB DEJUAN - DEADLY CONDUCT DISCHARGE FIREARM
JOHNSON, LYNN MARIE - OBSTRUCT RETALIATION
KUNZ, JEFFERY DAVID - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE (2 CNTS)
LACEY, DEMARSHAY DOMINIQUE - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUB
STANCE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER
LAWRENCE, IRVIN WARREN - CREDIT CARD ABUSE
LAWS, QUENTIN LIONEL - FELONY THEFT (2 COUNTS)
MACK, CYNTHIA DARLENE - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON
MALONEY, RAYMOND LEE - AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF CHILD
MASON, DEVON DERAY - FELONY ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY INJURY
FAMILY VIOLENCE BY STRANGULATION
MCCOY, RANDALL - FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER
MILES, JOHN CORY-MICHAEL - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE
CONVICTIONS
MONTGOMERY, FOSTER WILKERSON - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
MORGAN, EDWARD ALLEN - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE
NOLAND, MICHELLE BONHAM - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA
ORTIZ, JAVIER - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON
PAYNE, MISTY MARIE - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE CONVICTIONS
RAMIREZ-RAMIREZ, BENJAMIN - AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON
SAUNDERS, JAMES TAYLOR - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
TURNER, CATHERINE SARAH - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCE
WATSON, MARGARET LEANN - BURGLARY OF A HABITATION
WELCH, WILLARD BERNARD - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCE
WHITE, SHANNON RENE - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
WHITE, SHEA RACQUEL - FELONY THEFT WITH TWO OR MORE
CONVICTIONS
WILLIAMS, CELENIA MARGARITA - POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA &
POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ( 2 COUNTS)
WILLIAMS, GEORGE - FELONY EVADING ARREST WITH VEHICLE &
POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
WILLIAMS, MICHAEL KELLY - FELONY DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED
WILLIS, JOHNATHAN LEEDEL - FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER
WILSON, ALEXANDRIA LYN - BURGLARY OF A HABITATION
Puzzle..Cont.from pg 2
FUGITIVES
WANT
GALVESTON COUNTY
stables its Constable’s Office and not
Constable’s Department?
Posted by topcat at 12/27/2011 9:49:18
PM
“Sheriff’s Department” is probably used
in the Daily News and other media outlets because their crime reporters are
always (properly) using Houston Police
If you have information on any of these wanted fugitives c
Department, Pasadena Police DepartGalveston County Sheriff’s
Office
409-766-2322
or 1-866-2
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a Retired
Cop
ment and Galveston Police Department and they just keep going and say
Say One Day
Galveston County Sheriff’s Department
I heard a retired cop say one
because they slept through that part of
day, “Shot my first turkey
civics class. They do it to Harris County
yesterday, scared the hell out
Sheriff too, but their editors actually
of everyone in the frozen food
work to catch those things up there.
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The Police News
Interviewing
Candidates
GALVESTON - In December, The Police News conducted recorded interviews with several candidates for various political offices. Those interviews
are available to our readers and listeners
on our website, www.ThePoliceNews.
net on a continuing basis.
The Police News has endeavored to
reach out to all candidates seeking office in Galveston County and our invitation remains extended to those who
have not yet had the opportunity to visit
with us and tell us and Police News
readers about your campaigns.
If you are a candidate for any office in
Galveston County, or in a county bordering Galveston County, and would
like to take advantage of this opportunity to reach many thousands of voters,
please contact us to schedule a date and
time.
Breck Porter, 409-457-4969
Thus far we have visited with the following candidates and their interviews
may be heard on our website. In the
main menu on our homepage, click
on POLICE NEWS INTERVIEWS.
Bill Young - Republican For Sheriff,
Galveston County
George Young - Republican for Judge,
10th District Court, Galveston County
Heidi Thiess, Republican for State Representative, District 24
Henry Trochesset, Republican for
Galveston County Sheriff
J.L. Campbell, Republican For Sheriff,
Galveston County
Joel Caldwell, Republican For Sheriff,
Galveston County
John Kinard, Republican for Galveston
County Sheriff
John Pruitt, Democrat For Sheriff,
Galveston County
Kerry Neves - Republican for Judge,
10th State District Court
Mary Huls, Republican for State Representative, District 129
Pam Matranga - Candidate for Re-election, Constable Pct 7
Phillip Morris, Republican for Judge,
10th State District Court
Ray Lease, Republican for Sheriff,
Galveston County
Robert Gonzalez - Republican For Congress - District 24
Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and they will tell you it’s because they’re such
beautiful animals. I think my wife is beautiful, but I only have photographs of her on the wall.
Blood Drive Memorializes Fort Bend Deputy
RICHMOND - Almost 60 people turned
out in December to participate in the
First Annual Deputy John Norsworthy
Blood Drive held at the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.
Staff members of the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center helped 59 people
during the drive, which produced 76 total products. There were six deferrals in
the drive.
On Dec. 27, 2010, Deputy Norsworthy
was involved in a motor vehicle accident
while en route to back up another deputy on a traffic stop. Deputy Norsworthy was airlifted to Memorial Hermann
Hospital – The Medical Center where
he succumbed to his injuries on Jan. 4,
2011. He was 39 years old, and left behind his wife, Melissa, and a daughter
and son, Kaitlyn and Jacob.
Prior to his death, a blood drive was
held to help Norsworthy, and more than
600 people turned out to donate blood.
Family members were among those
who participated in the drive.
The Katy Fire Department also dedicated its quarterly blood drive toward
the Norsworthy Blood Drive total.
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WANTED FUGITIVES
Galveston County
Galveston County Sheriff’s Office
409-766-2322 or 1-866-248-8477
Authorities Seeking Sheriff’s Deputies Stage
Relatives of Suicide Candidate’s Debate
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GALVESTON - Galveston County Social Services authorities are attempting
to locate relatives of a Galveston woman
who took her own life in November.
Joan Meidam, 54, was found dead in
her garage from a self inflicted gunshot
wound after leaving a note on the front
door of her home reading, “I’ve killed
myself, call the police.”
Her son, Joe Meidam of Houston reportedly discovered his mother’s body
but authorities have been unable to contact him since.
Meidam’s remains are still in the Galveston County Morgue unclaimed. Her
husband Dennis Meidam died in 2008
and Meidam had lived alone since with
her pet dog and cats in her home in the
1400 block of Bowie Street.
Persons with information about how
to locate her son in Houston or other
relative are asked to contact Kashonda
Edwards in the Social Services Office
at 409-770-5585 or The Police News at
409-632-0042.
DICKINSON - The Galveston County
Deputy Sheriff’s Association will stage
a candidate’s debate and meet-the-candidates forum from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan.
19 in the auditorium of McAdams Junior High School, 11415 Hughes Road
in Dickinson.
The event will include candidates
seeking election as Sheriff of Galveston
County.
The public may submit questions in
advance by emailing: gcdsa@comcast.
net
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