December 8, 2023 - Roy Cheatwood, Constable Precinct 3, reports the arrest of Dakota Rodgers, 25, of Center on December 7, 2023, in relation to several outstanding warrants out of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department.
Law enforcements agencies in Shelby County have been seeking the whereabouts of Rodgers in the hopes of capturing him. According to Constable Cheatwood, Rodgers' family reached out to him around 11:30pm on Wednesday, December 6, because Rodgers trusted him and in an attempt to negotiate a safe surrender.
December 6, 2023 - A Shelby County Grand Jury handed down 15 indictments on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The grand jury was impaneled for the July 2023 term of the 123rd/273rd Judicial District Courts.
December 5, 2023 - The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the incidence of a shooting on November 30, 2023, in Timpson.
According to Shelby County Sheriff’s Lt. Chad Hooper, officers were dispatched to a residence on Garrison Street around 9pm in response to a request for assistance. When deputies arrived they discovered one individual who had been shot and a suspect which they took into custody.
The individual who had been shot was transported by ambulance to a hospital in Nacogdoches for treatment of their injuries.
November 28, 2023 - The intersection of hurst Street and Cass-Caid Drive was the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Thursday, November 23, 2023.
According to the Center Police Department, at 1:35am a maroon Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck driven by Jorge Vazquez, 21, of Center was northbound in the 800 block of Hurst Street when the Ram left the roadway to the right and struck a concrete drainage culvert, flipping over onto its top, and crossing the 100 block of Cass-Caid Drive. The Ram landed in the parking lot of Roughrider Quick Lube.