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An Ellis County jury has handed down a 68-year sentence to an Italy man in a drug possession case last week.
On Aug. 16, the jury sentenced 41-year-old Ryan Keith Mason, of Italy, after his conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He was charged with possessing four grams or more but less than 200 grams of methamphetamine.
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An Ellis County jury has sentenced a Dallas woman to the maximum allowable sentence for animal cruelty.
Michelle Lorraine Lehman, 41, received a year in jail and a $4,000 fine for each of nine counts of animal cruelty. The day before her sentencing, the jury deliberated for two hours and reviewed photographic evidence depicting the cruelty inflicted on 82 severely malnourished animals seized by authorities.
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The Venus man accused in the death of former Waxahachie Police Department officer Josh Williams last summer is set for trial Tuesday.
Jury selection is planned to begin Monday in 40th Judicial District Court.
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The state on Tuesday began its case against the 24-year-old man accused of killing a Waxahachie police officer in a drunk driving incident.
Dylyn Reed Richards pleaded not guilty to the charge of intoxication manslaughter resulting in the death of the peace officer. The charges stem from a July 28, 2012 incident in which he is suspected of causing the death of 28-year old Waxahachie Police Department Officer Joshua Stanley Williams.
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An Ellis County jury found Dylyn Richards guilty Thursday afternoon of intoxication manslaughter in the July 2012 death of Waxahachie Police Officer Josh Williams.
It took the jury of six men and six women 16 minutes to convict 25-year-old Richards, of Venus, after two days of testimony.
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Ennis police arrested two men over the weekend in connection to a number of car burglaries over the past month.
Lt. Mike Hopson of the Ennis Police Department said investigators arrested 18-year-old Bobby Williams and 20-year-old Jalen Radway on Sunday pending charges of burglary of a vehicle and credit card abuse or fraud.
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The man who shot Ennis resident Eric Rasco in March pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Dennis Ray Holt, Jr., accepted a plea deal for 25 years of prison time with the Texas Department of Corrections. He received 156 days of credit for time served at Wayne McCollum Detention Center leading up to his plea in 40th Judicial District Court.
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Ferris police arrested one man in connection to a July 7 sexual assault, and expect to arrest another in the next few days.
Chief Sam Love of the Ferris Police Department said officers arrested 20-year-old Carlos Casillas of Ferris on Sept. 11 on charges of sexual assault.
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A 53-year-old Walmart employee surrendered to authorities Wednesday pending charges of indecent exposure.
Lt. Mike Hopson of the Ennis Police Department said Garry Lane Archibald of Ennis spoke to a 27-year-old woman at approximately 9:30 p.m. Saturday evening before the beginning of his shift.
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Navarro County Sheriff Elmer Tanner said he and his detectives currently consider the two adults and three children found dead in a rural Rice home Sunday night to be victims of a murder-suicide.
Tanner planned to update the media at a noon conference today, and as of press time, the investigation was ongoing. Tanner said he did not know who initiated the slayings. “We have not completed our investigation,” he said.
Tanner said deputies were dispatched to the home at approximately 7 p.m. Sunday night, though he said the last time anyone saw the family alive was Thursday night.
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CORSICANA — A mother fatally shot her husband and three sons in their Rice-area home before killing herself with a shot to the head, the Navarro County sheriff said today.
In a media briefing at lunchtime, Elmer Tanner said investigators have turned their attentions to finding the reason why 33-year-old Guadalupe Ronquillo-Ovalle killed her family late Thursday or early Friday.
The bodies of Ronquillo-Ovalle, husband Israel Alvarez, 33, and their three sons, ages 4, 8 and 10, were discovered by Alvarez’s father.
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CORSICANA — A Rice-area mother fatally shot her husband and three sons in their home before killing herself with a shot to the head, the Navarro County sheriff said Tuesday.
In a noon briefing at the Navarro County Sheriff’s Office, Elmer Tanner said investigators have turned their attentions to finding the reason why 33-year-old Guadalupe Ronquillo-Ovalle killed her family late Thursday or early Friday.
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Ennis police are still searching for suspects in the theft of more than $100,000 in shingles early Thursday. Lt. Mike Hopson with the Ennis Police Department said a report about the theft came in around 3:30 a.m. from the area of Ennis Transportation.
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Palmer police chased a handcuffed motorcyclist into Ennis on Saturday night.
Palmer Police Department spokesman Cpl. Phil Shelton said the chase, which began at a Chevron in Palmer, started out as a warrant service call at the gas station. Ronald Gillespie, 53, of Dallas was wanted for parole violation on an aggravated robbery charge and slipped out of custody in handcuffs.
“He managed to escape from custody, got on a bike and took off,” Shelton said.
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Ennis police are investigating a Thursday report that a man impersonated a U.S. Marshal to gain entry into an Ennis home.
Lt. Mike Hopson, head of the Ennis Police Department’s criminal investigations division, said the probe into the incident remains open and he expects an arrest.
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Randall Williford, an Ennis man accused of breaking into a woman’s house on N. Gaines St. in April while drunk and using her laundry facilities, has pleaded guilty to drunk driving and burglary.
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Online court records show Reynoldo Romero, indicted last November for a string of thefts in the Ferris area in 2011, pleaded guilty to burglary charges this month. Romero was sentenced to 15 years in a Texas Department of Corrections prison, according to online court records.
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On Monday, an Ellis County jury convicted Mahmod Suleiman Qalawi, 44, a butcher from Venus, of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — family violence. On Tuesday, the same jury sentenced Qalawi to five years in prison.
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Police Chief John Erisman said an officer’s failure to follow proper procedure made it possible for a suspect to walk out of the Ennis municipal jail on Nov. 3.
David Benson, 35 of Ennis, was arrested Nov. 2. pending charges of burglary. The next day, he managed to walk out the front door of the Ennis Police Department and get two blocks away before Officers Jacob Yrlas and Roger Cole were able to catch him.
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The Ellis County Sheriff is warning residents about a debt-collection scam that has popped up.
An Ellis County resident reported receiving a phone call from an unidentified person who stated that the resident needed to send him $900 or the caller would bring the sheriff’s office with him to make an arrest.
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