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Second Tin Top Hwy Fatality This Week

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UPDATE TO CHILD SHOOTING DEATH

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K9 Assists in Arrest

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Overdose Results in Charges

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Suspect Arrested For Stabbing Two Women

Suspect Arrested For Stabbing Two Women

Suspect Arrested For Stabbing Two Women On 11-21-18 around 615pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the 3900 block of Peak Rd. ref. a stabbing call. Deputies discovered Jacob Russell Shaw (20 yoa) allegedly stabbed 2 females during a disturbance. The...

Hood County Jailers Save Suicidal Inmate

Hood County Jailers Save Suicidal Inmate

Hood County Jailers Save Suicidal Inmate On 11-17-18 around 2pm, the Hood County Sheriff’s Office jail staff conducting inmate checks discovered Blake Michael Viss (28 yoa) in the process of attempting suicide by hanging. Jail staff cut Viss down and started CPR along...

Acton Triangle Store Gun Incident

Acton Triangle Store Gun Incident

Acton Triangle Store Gun Incident On 11-11-18, GPD received a report of a man who had entered the Texan Triangle store with a handgun. Surveillance video images clearly showed the man walking through the parking lot with a handgun in his hand, and again with the...

Prisoner Brings Xanax Pills Into Jail

Prisoner Brings Xanax Pills Into Jail

Prisoner Brings Xanax Pills Into Jail On 11-15-18 around 11pm, the Granbury Police Department brought in Blake Michael Viss (28 yoa) on a Marijuana warrant. During the book in process Viss was found to be in possession of approx. a dozen xanax pills. Viss was charged...

Disturbance Lead To DWI and Felony Charges

Disturbance Lead To DWI and Felony Charges

Disturbance Lead To DWI and Felony Charges On 11-13-18 around 945pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a disturbance at the 3600 block of Montgomery Dr. Deputies discovered Ryan Kristian McDonald (38 yoa) allegedly assaulted his 37 year old girlfriend...

Traffic Stop Nets Over 20 Grams of Meth

Traffic Stop Nets Over 20 Grams of Meth

Traffic Stop Nets Over 20 Grams of Meth On 11-9-18 around 5pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducted a traffic stop at the 8500 block of Mitchell Bend Ct. During the stop Christopher Dan Hedge (40 yoa) was found to be in possession of 20.6 grams of meth and...

Traffic Stop Results in 3 Arrests; Seizure of 8 Dogs

Traffic Stop Results in 3 Arrests; Seizure of 8 Dogs

Traffic Stop Results in 3 Arrests; Seizure of 8 Dogs   On 11-02-2018, a GPD officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation which was leaving a location of recently reported drug activity. The occupants of the vehicle were 54 year old Donald Ray Duke Jr. of...

Traffic Stop Yields Drug Arrest

Traffic Stop Yields Drug Arrest

Traffic Stop Yields Drug Arrest On 11-5-18 around 430pm, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies conducted a traffic stop at the 1800 block of Mitchell Bend Hwy. During the stop Roy Carol Sparks (44 yoa) was found to be in possession of 1.3 grams of meth. Sparks was...

Husband Arrested for Choking Wife

Husband Arrested for Choking Wife

Husband Arrested for Choking Wife On 11-4-18 around 1am, Hood County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the 2600 block of Williamson Rd. ref. a disturbance. Deputies were told Donald K. Alderman (57 yoa) allegedly choked his 52 year old wife during an argument....