by ANDY SEVILLA Kyle police believe they have identified and interviewed the person believed to have struck a local man several weeks ago in an apparent auto-pedestrian accident. But, authorities are waiting for the medical examiner’s report and laboratory results of forensic evidence before filing charges and making an arrest. Phillip Duran, 37, was found [...]
by ANDY SEVILLA A man who police say cut a 20-year-old San Marcos resident with a knife while apparently trying to burglarize the victim’s home is on the run, and authorities are asking for the public’s help in nabbing the alleged criminal. The victim, whom police have not identified, suffered minor knife cuts on his [...]
by ANDY SEVILLA A man who police say cut a 20-year-old San Marcos resident with a knife while apparently trying to burglarize the victim’s home is on the run, and authorities are asking for the public’s help in nabbing the alleged criminal. The victim, who police have not identified, suffered minor knife cuts on his [...]
by ANDY SEVILLA An Austin man is in Hays County custody and has been charged with felony aggravated robbery after an April 21 incident that left a woman unconscious and in critical condition. Jaime Beltran Granados, 22, was arrested April 25 on the first-degree felony charge, punishable with five to 99 years or life in [...]
SUBMITTED REPORT Sky lanterns were released in honor of Hays County crime victims at the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week event held at the Hays County government center on April 25. National Crime Victims’ Rights Week ran from April 21 through April 27. Thursday night’s event at the government center started with a proclamation reading [...]
by Kim Hilsenbeck The Hays County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO), which maintains the Hays County Jail, admitted no wrongdoing in the suicide death of an inmate in 2011. On April 8, the HCSO responded to a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed against Sheriff Gary Cutler and eight other employees of the facility on behalf of Eric [...]
by ANDY SEVILLA A man who accused a Buda police officer of being “extremely aggressive” and racially profiling him in an arrest last year is due in a Hays County court next week. Buda police alleage that Russell Carter, 45, of Austin, interfered with public duties during a traffic stop. Carter was booked into the [...]
Jury selection begins for 30-year-old capital murder case A jury was selected last week in the 274th District Court at the Hays County Government Center in the capital murder trial of Willie Roy Jenkins. He was indicted by the Hays County Grand Jury in 2010 for the murder of 20-year-old Sheryl Ann Norris in San [...]
News Briefs Jury selection begins for capital murder that happened 30-plus years ago Jury selection began this week in the 274th District Court at the Hays County Government Center in the capital murder trial of Willie Roy Jenkins. He was indicted by the Hays County Grand Jury in 2010 for the murder of 20-year-old Sheryl [...]
Following a month-long investigation by the Texas Rangers, a former high-ranking officer in the Kyle Fire Department, Richard Craig Kolls, Jr., is facing criminal charges. According to the Hays County Sheriff’s Office jail records, he was charged with abuse of official capacity, a Class A Misdemeanor, and with forgery, which is a Felony. An [...]
