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Second Tin Top Hwy Fatality This Week

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UPDATE TO CHILD SHOOTING DEATH

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2 Juveniles Arrested For Stealing Firearm

2 Juveniles Arrested For Stealing Firearm

On 4-6-22 and 4-7-22 Hood County Sheriff’s Office Investigators arrested 2 male juveniles ages 14 and 16 years of age and charged them with Theft of a Firearm (state jail felony).The charges stem from the juveniles stealing a firearm from a vehicle at the 2000 block...

Suspect With Drugs on motorcycle Flees Police

Suspect With Drugs on motorcycle Flees Police

Suspect flees on Motorcycle and has drugsOn 3-30-22 around 1130 pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit Investigators conducting a drug investigation tried to pull over Lauren Whitney Moore (35 yoa), who was driving a motorcycle at Sky Harbor Drive and...

Suspect Arrested For Family Violence 

Suspect Arrested For Family Violence 

Suspect arrested for family violenceOn 3-27-22 around 1045pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the 8800 block of Mid Haven Circle ref. a disturbance.Deputies discovered Nicholas Adam Jones (28 yoa) allegedly grabbed his 25-year-old girlfriend by the...

Son Arrested Over Threats Against Father

Son Arrested Over Threats Against Father

On 3-15-22 around 6am, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the 5900 block of Texas Trail ref. a disturbance.Deputies discovered Dalton Jay Holder (19 yoa) allegedly pointed a pistol at his 45- year-old father during an argument and made threats to shoot...

Evading Suspect Captured in Hood County

Evading Suspect Captured in Hood County

On 3-14-22 around 7pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call of an active police pursuit involving multiple agencies that started in Brown County on a stolen dually truck from Coleman County.The driver, Donald Lynn Goodwin (52 yoa), who eventually...

Suspect Arrested With 15 lbs of Marijuana

Suspect Arrested With 15 lbs of Marijuana

Suspect arrested with 15 pounds of marijuanaOn 3-7-22 around 1030pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducted a traffic stop at Glen Rose Hwy. and Pinckard Ct.During the stop William David Martin (54 yoa) was found to be in possession of 15 pounds of...

Traffic Stop Nets THC Products

Traffic Stop Nets THC Products

Traffic stop nets THC productsOn 2-27-22 around 1pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducted a traffic stop at East Hwy. 377 and Gateway Hills Lane.During the stop Taya Cheyanne Vasquez (24 yoa) was found to be in possession of 1,270 grams of THC products...

Traffic Stop Nets Cocaine and Firearm Arrest

Traffic Stop Nets Cocaine and Firearm Arrest

Traffic stop nets cocaine and firearm arrestOn 2-18-22 around midnight, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducted a traffic stop at the 1100 block of East Hwy. 377.During the stop Cody Lane Penrod (25 yoa) was found to be in possession of over 4 grams of cocaine...

Suspect Arrested With Mushrooms 

Suspect Arrested With Mushrooms 

Suspect arrested with mushroomsOn 2-15-22 around 4pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit Investigators conducting a drug investigation made a traffic stop at Comanche Cove Dr. and Contrary Creek Rd.During the stop Christian Scott Earlston (22 yoa) was...

Suspect With Warrant Tries to Flee Deputy 

Suspect With Warrant Tries to Flee Deputy 

Suspect with warrant tries to flee DeputyOn 2-8-22 around 3pm, Investigators from the Hood County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit conducting a warrant service at Mulberry Dr. and Crestview Dr. on Eric Stone Layton (28 yoa), who has an assault (class A misd-bond...

Sheriff’s Office Looking For Stabbing Suspect

Sheriff’s Office Looking For Stabbing Suspect

Sheriff’s Office looking for stabbing suspectOn 1-15-22 around 530pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a stabbing at the 7700 block of Sprester Ct. in Tolar.Deputies discovered James Estrada Jr. (36 yoa) allegedly stabbed his 48-year-old brother in...