The following are excerpts from just some of the reports recently generated by the Texas County Sheriff’s Department:
•A deputy responded on April 20 to a report of a truck stolen from a Pea Ridge Road residence at Cabool.
The officer spoke with a woman there who said she and her husband had returned from turkey hunting and were sitting on the patio talking when they observed a man wearing pants but no shirt jump into their 2010 Toyota Tundra (valued at $22,000) that was parked in the driveway and take off. The woman told the officer there was a 12-gauge shotgun and two 9-millimeter pistols inside the vehicle.
Agencies in several surrounding counties were notified, and the suspect – a 26-year-old Versailles man – was apprehended after crashing while traveling west on U.S. 60. The suspect was taken to a hospital for medical attention, and a probable cause statement was sent to the county prosecutor seeking charges against him of motor vehicle theft, firearms theft and unlawful possession of a firearm.
•Steven T. Settles, 56, of 11462 Cooper Road at Licking, was issued a citation for fourth-degree domestic assault after allegedly kicking a 57-year-old woman in the ankle during a physical altercation at her Highway 32 residence.
•A deputy was dispatched on April 20 to a structure fire on Hubbard Drive at Mountain Grove.
A 41-year-old man who lives there told the officer he believed a neighbor had started the fire.
The man told the officer he had confronted the neighbor on an earlier date about stealing a ladder. He said when he was going to back to his vehicle, the neighbor hit him in the back of the head three times and fired four or five shots from a pistol as he was driving away.
The man told the officer when he got home, he saw his dogs out of their pen and the pen burning. A state fire marshal was called to the scene, but no contact was made with the suspect. Investigation continues.
•A 66-year-old Raymondville man came to the TCSD office on April 3 to report a theft that happened about two years ago.
The man told an officer that a metal ladder stand-off and a ground probe with a total value of $531 had been swiped from his Wildwood Drive property by a Licking man who had built an outbuilding for him.
Investigation is ongoing.
Texas County Jail admissions
April 14
Robert P. Lay – assault
April 15
William D. Collins – possession of controlled substance
Hayley A. Vail – possession of controlled substance
Clint Smotherman – possession of controlled substance
April 16
Candace N. Dugger – DWI
Robert J. Richardson – DWI
Chad L. Cooper – 12-hour commitment
Alonza Shearer – sexual misconduct
William Lucas – child molestation
Ryan N. Ewbank – property damage, ID theft
April 17
James E. Hansen – statutory sodomy
Casey J. Martin – possession of drug paraphernalia
Scotty G. Barham – possession of controlled substance
April 18
Jeremy A. Breedlove – driving while revoked, displaying plates of another
Billy E. Smith – possession of controlled substance
Steven R. Mings – DWI
Robert J. Owens II – possession of controlled substance, driving while revoked, resisting arrest
April 19
Loretta Houston – passing bad checks
Melissa Jackson – failure to appear
Harrison Pierce – attempt to deliver controlled substance to jail
Stanley Smith – warrant
Bridgette M. Prock – 48-hour commitment
April 20
Bryan A. Spence – DWI
Austin M. Sawyer – stealing, minor in possession of alcohol
April 21
Kenneth J. Manion – driving while revoked
Steven T. Settles – assault
Eric J. Rawls – DWI
A Cabool husband and wife watches as their vehicle and guns are swiped from inside a truck. An arrest was later made in Webster County.