Saturday night fatality on FM 1537
A car crash on Farm Road 1537 resulted in a fatality Saturday night, according to 911 call logs.
At approximately 11:28 p.m. Saturday evening, two callers reported a one-vehicle accident in the 4000 block of FM 1537 where a vehicle hit a tree and was on fire, with the occupant still in the vehicle. Responding officers from HCSO and
Responding officers from HCSO and DPS found the woman in the vehicle was a fatality, according to police.
The investigation was cleared by 2:06 a.m. on Sunday morning, according to call logs.
Alleged high-speed chase ends in arrest
Demondre Deshawn Holiness, 23, of Dallas was booked in on charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and evading arrest or detention with a motor vehicle after an alleged high speed chase at 6:08 p.m. Monday evening near the 110 mile marker of I-30 eastbound, according to police reports.
After attempting to pull Holiness over for a routine traffic stop, Holiness allegedly evaded police and exited at State Highway 67, abandoning the vehicle near the 1200 block of Kendal Lane, reports read. Witnesses informed police they had seen Holiness exit the vehicle, and police further found Holiness’s phone was allegedly still linked to the car’s bluetooth system, police said.
Holiness was taken to jail, where he remains on $15,000 worth of bonds.
Man posing as buyer charged with vehicle burglary
Rickie John Richard, 40, of Duson, La., was booked in on charges of burglary of a motor vehicle after a report of suspicious activity in the 1000 block of East Shannon Road led police to his location, according to reports. A caller told SSPD there were possibly two white males breaking into vehicles at 2:01 a.m. early Tuesday morning, and when police arrived they allegedly found one white man sitting in the front seat of a truck, reports read.
Police noted the “truck door handle appeared to be damaged and [the] keyhole was hollowed out as if there was a forced entry… there was two pairs of pliers lying in the front seat where [Richard] was.” Richard allegedly claimed that the owner of the vehicle had given him permission to inspect the vehicle as it was for sale, but when police contacted the vehicle’s owner, he told them a different story, the report read.
According to police, the owner stated Richard had represented himself as an interested buyer who was a truck driver and “would be passing through Sulphur Springs late at night and did not want to drive to Cumby to look at the vehicle.” Therefore, the owner said, he parked the vehicle on East Shannon Road so Richard could look at it but had locked the vehicle and did not give permission for Richard to enter it, police said.
Richard was taken to jail, where he remains on a $2,500 bond, according to records.