by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Dec 1, 2024 | Criminalization, Spotlight
Devonte Amerson, waiting. Photo by Ursula Rogers. Hays County again punts on deciding whether to dismiss Devonte Amerson’s capital murder charge In March of 2018, San Marcos police officers traveled to Houston, Texas, to arrest Cyrus Gray and Devonte Amerson....
by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Nov 1, 2024 | Criminalization
Bobby Harper, on the left, celebrating Christmas last year with a friend in the Stiles Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. His murder conviction might be top of the list for a new CIU to investigate. Photo courtesy of Ruah Ministries. What percentage of...
by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Oct 1, 2024 | Criminalization
This November, Caldwell County voters will select their next Tax Assessor-Collector with the incumbent Darla Law retiring. The position importantly oversees the registration, titling, and transferring of all motor vehicles, including handicap placards. The race...
by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Aug 1, 2024 | Criminalization
A contractor with ties to Hays County is working with the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign in what The New York Times described as a “central role” in ballot-access efforts – and he has been arrested for assault twice this year. Trenton Donn Pool, son of...
by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Jul 1, 2024 | Criminalization
The author visiting Bobby Harper at the Stiles Unit of the so-called Texas Dept. of Justice in Beaumont last November. Photo courtesy of Ruah Ministries. In the late hours of Oct. 8, 1998, Mohammad Yunus, a convenience store clerk, was killed in a robbery at a Conoco...
by Caldwell / Hays Examiner | Jun 1, 2024 | Criminalization
Terry Turner was released from the Caldwell County Jail on May 8. Turner gained notoriety in 2021 after shooting and killing an unarmed man, Adil Dghoughi, who had become lost on his way home in the middle of the night and had pulled into Turner’s driveway to use his...
