July 7, 2016 - The Shelby County grand jury for the July Term 2016 of the 123rd Judicial District Court met Tuesday, July 5, 2016 and indicted 18 cases.
Michelle W. Jackson was indicted for criminally negligent homicide, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 11, 2015 Jackson by criminal negligence caused the death of Mary Young Walton by colliding with an automobile in which Walton was a passenger, causing her death. (Related story: Center Police Department Investigates Hurst Street Crash; Multiple Agencies Assist)
Regina Rene Shead received two indictments relating to November 15, 2015. The first indictment is for driving while intoxicated with child passenger, state jail felony. The indictment alleges Shead operated a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated and with a child passenger younger than 15 years of age. The second indictment was for abandoning or endangering a child, state jail felony. The indictment alleges Shead intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence, engaged in conduct that placed a child younger than 15 years of age in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment by driving under the influence of alcohol and intentionally ramming her vehicle into another vehicle.
Belinda Kay Green was indicted for forgery - against elderly individual, third degree felony. The indictment alleges on December 29, 2015 Green, with intent to defraud or harm another, namely Ola M. Gardner, an elderly individual 65 years of age or older, by writing numerous check on Gardner's Citizens State Bank account in the accrued amount of $3,750.
Joseph Clay Hardy received two indictments relating to March 17, 2016. The first indictment was for sexual assault of a child, second degree felony. The indictment alleges on March 17, 2016 Hardy caused the penetration of the sexual organ of a child who was then and there younger than 17 years of age and not the spouse of the defendant, by Hardy's sexual organ. The second indictment was for sexual assault, second degree felony. The indictment alleges Hardy caused the penetration of the sexual organ of another with his sexual organ, without the consent of the other.
Clayton Alan Meisch was indicted for theft, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 21, 2015 Meisch took materials of the value of $2,500 or more but less than $30,000 from Steel Building Supply, the owner, without effective consent. This was done by issuing or passing a check paid to the order of Steel Building Supply in the amount of $4,727.99 when Meisch did not have sufficient funds in or on deposit with Austin Bank of Nacogdoches.
Hugo Rena Barruetta was indicted for fraudulent use or possession of identifying information, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 11, 2015 with intent to harm or defraud another, and without the consent of Jacob Williams, Barruetta used the identifying information of Jacob Williams to gain employment. The information included Williams name, date of birth, and social security number to gain employment.
Maricela Hernandez was indicted for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 22, 2015 Hernandez operated a motor-propelled vehicle, an automobile without the effective consent of Neva Fields, the owner.
Tracy Lynn Averyt was indicted for false report, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on November 28, 2015 Averyt communicated a report of a present offense, an assault, and Averyt knew the report was false or baseless and would ordinarily cause action by an official agency organized to deal with emergencies, namely, Center Police Department.
Kemberly Suzanne Williams was indicted for false report, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 24, 2015 Williams communicated a report of a present emergency situation in stating that she was having a heart attack and then stating she was pregnant and having a miscarriage. Williams knew that said report was false or baseless and would ordinarily cause action by an official agency organized to deal with emergencies, namely, ACE EMS.
Michael Dickerson was indicted for forgery, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on December 8, 2015 Dickerson passed a check purported to be the act of Rusk County Inmate Trust Fund, who did not authorize the act, on a Citizens National Bank Account for the amount of $3,000 made out to Dickerson and cashed at Walmart in Center.
Bobby Joe Cartwright was indicted for failure to register as a sex offender, third degree felony. The indictment allges on July 8, 2015 Cartwright while being a person required to register with the local law enforcement authority in the county where he resided or intended to reside for more than seven days, Shelby County, because of a reportable conviction for Shelby County, intentionally or knowingly failed to register with the local law enforcement authority.
Tia Knoll was indicted for assault bodily injury, third degree felony. The indictment alleges on September 18, 2015 Knoll recklessly caused bodily injury to a member of the defendant's family by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of the family member by applying pressure to the throat of neck and/or blocking the nose or mouth of the victim.
Giovani Johnson was indicted for forgery, third degree felony. The indictment alleges on December 18, 2015 Johnson with intent to defraud or harm another, possessed with intent to pass a forged writing knowing such writing to be forged and such writing had been so altered that it purported to be a copy of an original when no such original existed, and said writing was a fake one hundred dollar bill.
Moses M. Crawford, Jr. was indicted for tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, third degree felony. The indictment alleges on September 7, 2015 Crawford knowing that an investigation was in progress and while detained for questioning, intentionally or knowingly destroyed drug evidence: a cigar blunt, with intent to impair its availability as evidence in the investigation.
Gary Patrick Simon was indicted for deadly conduct, third degree felony. The indictment alleges on July 25, 2015 Simon knowingly discharged a firearm at or in the direction of Shaddrick Tawan McCollister.
Emanuel Johnson was indicted for cruelty to non-livestock animals, state jail felony. The indictment alleges on July 20, 2015 Johnson recklessly tortured a pitbull dog by failing to provide necessary food, water, care, or shelter, causing the dog's death. Johnson's conduct was not generally accepted and otherwise lawful form of conduct occurring solely for the purpose of or in support of fishing, hunting, or trapping; or wildlife management, wildlife or depredation control, or shooting preserve practices as regulated by state and federal law; or animal husbandry or agriculture practice involving livestock animals.
Indictments and Information are not a conviction, and are a matter of public record. All individuals are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law.
