Stephens County Sheriff’s Office weekly summary for March 12-18
Sheriff’s Weekly Summary
Calls for Service: 40
Civil Papers Successfully Served: 10
Inmates Housed as of March 19: 29
March 13
- An emergency detention order was issued for a mental health patient. A deputy transported the person to a mental health hospital in Wichita Falls.
- A theft was reported in the 6800 block CR 304. The victims left items outside of a house that they were moving from, and those items were stolen before the victims returned.
March 14
- A deputy served two arrest warrants on a 32-year-old male. Both warrants were for probation revocations related to past domestic violence offenses.
March 16
- An emergency detention order was issued for a mental health patient. A deputy transported him to a mental health hospital in Abilene.
- A deputy served four arrest warrants on a 37-year-old female. The warrants were related to the following four original charges: resisting arrest, evading arrest, possession of a controlled substance (drugs), and criminal mischief.
- A deputy served two arrest warrants on a 64-year-old male at his residence in the 900 block of West Wheeler Street. The felony warrant was for deadly conduct and the misdemeanor warrant was for not paying past citations related to vaccinating pets for rabies.
- A deputy served an arrest warrant on a 27-year- old female at a residence in the 900 block of West Elm Street. She was arrested for a probation revocation warrant related to a past DWI.
March 18
- A deputy arrested a 56-year-old man for a felony arrest warrant related to illegal dumping. The case stemmed from a S.O. investigation in 2017, where the illegal dumping occurred in the county. The arrest occurred in the 200 block of North Pecan Street.
Calls for service include but are not limited to: 911 calls, proactive contacts, non-emergency calls, registering sex offenders, serving civil papers, transporting prisoners and juveniles in and out of the county, mental hospital transports, court security, etc.
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