Blotter Briefs for Aug. 12, 2020

The following reports are based on arrests conducted with reports filed by Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County law enforcement from 5:30 a.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Tuesday and included:

Drug-related arrests

• Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies arrested a 24-year-old Grand Prairie woman following a traffic stop for which the driver had been allegedly traveling in the left lane of Interstate 30 near the Hopkins County line.

Deputies reported seeing an open container of alcohol in the center console and detecting the odor of marijuana. During a reported consent search, the deputy reported finding a gray vitamin pill case in the woman’s purse in which was a small pill package that allegedly contained four pills that field tested positive for MDMA, weighing 0.588 grams. An additional pill was allegedly also in the package, which the deputy reported was identified as Alprazolam (Xanax) at 0.183 grams.

• A traffic stop made by a Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputy for alleged failure to maintain a single lane and driving with an expired temporary vehicle registration of June 29 ended in the arrest of a 42-yearold Sulphur Springs woman on the charge of possession of a narcotic, more than 1 gram but less than 4 grams.

The deputy reported that, after a K-9 allegedly gave a positive alert on and a search of the vehicle was done, officers on scene “located a used hypodermic syringe as well as a hypodermic syringe containing a dark liquid-like substance deputies believed to methamphetamine” in the woman’s purse. The woman, who was the passenger in the vehicle, allegedly claimed the items as hers.

The deputy reported the syringe with the suspected methamphetamine weighed approximately 3 grams.

Miscellaneous arrests

• A 56-year-old Cumby woman was arrested Friday just before 5:30 p.m. on the charge of theft, more than $100 and less than $750 in value, at Walmart in Sulphur Springs. The arresting officer also reported that a criminal trespass was issued.

• Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies reported they received confirmation that a 37-year-old Kemp man did not have a valid driver’s license during a traffic stop around 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The man also allegedly had an active Lamar County warrant for the same offense. The deputy reported La mar County was unable to verify the warrant at the time of the stop.

• A 37-year-old Cumby woman was arrested at Walmart just before 3:30 p.m. Saturday for alleged theft with items totaled value at more than $100 but less than $750.

• A 38-year-old Gladewater woman was pulled over on State Highway 11 east at CR 2421 just before 2 a.m. Tuesday by a Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputy when he saw her allegedly driving on the shoulder. During the traffic stop, the deputy reported that the woman was nervous and claimed to not have a driver’s license. She also allegedly denied consent for a search, so a K-9 was called, the deputy reported.

“I located a small, clear plastic baggie inside of [a] planner located inside the driver’s purse. Deputies on scene located inside of the vehicle a methamphetamine pipe with residue along with a small, clear plastic baggie with crystal like substance believed to be methamphetamine,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.

The woman was arrested on the charges of no driver’s license while unlicensed and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Transfers, warrants and releases

• Sulphur Springs Special Crimes unit arrested a 41-year-old Sulphur Springs woman just before 8:30 p.m. Friday on a Bexar County warrant for violation of probation, which she was on for possession of a controlled substance.

The residence at which she was staying, the officer reported, was under surveillance. The officer claimed in his report there was a known felon staying there. The woman was allegedly seen by the officer as getting into “the right front passenger seat” of a white Ford Ranger and was taken into custody following a traffic stop.

• A 34-year-old Rockwall man was arrested on a warrant for felony possession of a controlled substance at 7:45 a.m. Saturday by a Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputy.

• In the 1500 block of Mockingbird Lane in Sulphur Springs Sunday around 8 p.m., Hopkins County Sheriff ’s deputies arrested a 39-year-old man on two Wood County warrants for possession of a controlled substance, more than 4 grams but less than 200 grams, and tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair an investigation. Bond on the possession charge was set at 20,000 and at 15,000 for the tampering charge.

• A 43-year-old Saltillo man was arrested at 9:51 p.m. Sunday on a Hopkins County warrant for trafficking of persons.

Animal complaints

• Neighbor’s cows kept getting on the property of a resident at County Road 1195 in Sulphur Springs at 10:57 a.m. Friday.
• There were cows out in the yard of a FM 69 Sulphur Springs woman, and they were going down by the road at 4:31 p.m. Friday.
• Dogs were reported to have gotten into a pen and killed the chickens on a property on CR 4707 in Sulphur Springs at 8:29 a.m. Saturday.
• A little cow was reported out on CR 119 in Brashear that wouldn’t go back in the fence at 8:17 a.m. Sunday.
• A Sulphur Springs woman reported a cow out near State Highway 19 at 8:22 a.m. Sunday.
• A Dike woman reported four calves out that weren’t hers on FM 3236 at 8:23 a.m. Sunday.
• A black calf was reported out on State Highway 11 east in Como at 1:20 p.m. Sunday.
• A Cumby resident reported at 6:46 p.m. Sunday that there was an aggressive German Shepherd near the park, but the responding officer was unable to locate it.
• A Sulphur Springs woman reported a bull on the road in the 1000 of Westwood at 7:36 p.m. Sunday.
• Three calves out at CR 2421 and SH 11 were reported by a Como man at 1:09 a.m. Monday. Cows were reported in the road at FM499 and CR 4116 in Cumby at 5:59 a.m. Monday. A Sulphur Springs woman called to report that she woke up to three horses in her front yard and had no idea who they belonged to on CR 4766 in North Hopkins at 6:50 a.m. Monday.
• Two female callers, one at 7:05 a.m. and the other at 7:17 a.m. Monday, reported three and four deceased hogs, respectively, in the road at SH 19 and FM 1567 in Miller Grove. A Saltillo man reported four black cows out west of SH 67 at 8:19 a.m.
• Monday. A Sulphur Springs woman called at 9:31 a.m. Monday to report that donkey were on her unfenced property and damaging things.
• A Sulphur Springs man reported four or five cows out at 10:05 a.m. Monday. A Sulphur Springs woman called to request help in getting the neighbors cows back on the right property. A Dike resident called to report a horse walking down CR 3562 at 10:14 a.m. Monday.
• A vehicle accident was reported twice at 10:26 p.m. Monday on SH 69 at CR 2310 by a Sulphur Springs man. In the first call, the man stated the accident was versus a cow and in the second call involved a deer.