4/25/2025 COLDSPRING

TY MARTIN INDICTED

Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon and Felon In Possesion of a firearm were the charges leveled against Oakhurst native, Ty Martin.  The charges stem from an incident at his mothers home that led his family members to disarm him.  According to a source there, Ty Martin left claiming he was going to Onalaska to, "get a gun" and left.

   A call was put out and Onalaska P.D. did stop him and take him into custody with the weapon.  They turned Ty over to SJC Sheriff deputies.  He was initially booked on a minor weapon charge.  

    Ty did make bail but failed to abide by the bond conditions leading to his bond being revoked.  The indictment was just handed down by the SJC Grand Jury.

4/20/25 SAN JACINTO COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTY WRECKS  COCAINE

A deer may have caused the recent wreck involving a now FORMER San Jacinto County deputy sheriff  'So'  who was on duty in an SJC patrol unit.

   Sam Houston allowed the deputy to resign according to a  source .   A proceedural after wreck toxocology report showing cocaine in the deputy's  system raises many questions.  

   According to research, there are prescription meds that can show up as cocaine in a drug screen and hitting a deer is not uncommon in these piney woods.  Cocaine clears your system fairly quickly according to a drug task force expert so lending credence to recent drug use.

    The deputy was clean when he was  hired.  He is a fairly new boot but has completed his field training time.  Deputy So cleared all of his  drug screening before he was hired.  Less than four months in Sam Houston's department and he is doing drugs on duty in uniform according to all indicators.  The most troubling aspect of this story is that Deputy So is the same deputy who killed Jarmar Brooks at the Kingwood hospital after he was arrested and transported.  So, a new boot, violated training in that he put a round in Jarmar's head after a body shot.  The whole situation reeks of inadequate training 

   Toxocology test after a wreck is proceedure.  We are asking if he was tested for drugs after the shooting.  No answer yet.

CORRECTION  There was six months between Sparta's May 25. 2020 family violence arrest and the Jan 6th dismissal for that assault arrest.  As I have been compiling my records on Sparta for the upcoming hearing, I realized my error.  There was time for him to complete a short pretrial intervention.   The dismissal document does say "other" snf  "terms completed" as the reason for the dismissal.  Bill Delmore was the ADA who was fighting the release of those records, not the prosecuting attorney on that case.  The quick release was Sparta's other" interferring with an emergency call' arrest in Houston County.   Didn't realize how many documents and other evidence that The Sentinel has compiled until someone thinks they are going to make me delete them all.  Forgive my error in confusing the these two with the several other arrests Sparta had that The Sentinel has  records on.  

3/15/2025 POINTBLANK

SENTINEL WINS 'TEN DAY RULE' DISCUSSION

The Conroe interim city attorney delivered the requested records "promptly" as required under the open records laws after all. We are not sure if the OAG open records division heeded my suggestion to call the city attorney and explain the law to him or if he just realized it was better to give me the records than to be outed as an idiot on The Sentienl front page.  Makes me no difference.  

   The records show that former SJC judge Lovett was called in to the P.D. as a "theft in progress" and they were on the scene to make the arrest when Lovett came out the door.

   What indicates to me that the theft was premeditated was that he purchased some items, got his receipt and headed out but then dipped back into the grocery section and began adding another 114 dollars worth of items  to the same cart then heading out the door.

    According to the list of stolen items in the  promptly delivered documents, it looks like Lovett was planning a big ole pot of shrimp gumbo. 

3/12/2025 LIVINGSTON ISD UNDER MULTIPLE CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATIONS

The failure of transparency sent us on an investigation beyond our simple questionaire open records request that short circuited Liv ISD's public accountability and the photo below may be why,  

UPDATE /24/2025

An open records request was returned to The Sentinel beyond the ten days required by law replete with an array of hoops to jump through before the requested information will be allegedly released.  Not only is Livingston ISD beyond the ten days, I did not ask for copies, only opportunity to review the documents.  The only allowance under the open records laws for the ten day delay is for an estimate of cost for copies which I never asked for IF IF IF that cost would exceed forty dollars.  It appears that Livingston ISD would rather The Sentinel not examine the requested information.  Hmmmmmmm.

2/10/2025 LIVINGSTON

ISD TITLE 9 ISSUES OF THEIR OWN

When Livingston ISD Athletic Director, Vanover resigned, It was among many questions regarding allocation of funding for the ISD sports programs.  Instead of scrutiny of the finances, Vanover left . . . . . amongst others.     Hello Livingston ISD school board.  Were the title 9 audits that were being called for ever done?  

    This stuff has been hanging a while.  Are the issues being addressed?  Are the female sports programs still being underfunded right here in East Texas?  There are more questions but let me submit that one in writing before we move on. 

DOG CATCHER, DOG SHERIFF, DOG RESCUE OR DOG THIEF?

And those aren't the only questions left in the wake of today's trial.

"My neighbor's dogs come down by my house", JP Blanchette said,  "and I put food out and pet them but I don't think that makes them my dogs", he clarified before finding for the Plaintiffs, Shawn and LaDonna McDonald. 

    Reba` the sweet lovable bitch was declared to be the rightful property of the McDonalds.  Judge Blanchette informed Sam Houston that he had 21 days to appeal to higher court as long as he put up a Five Hudred dollar bond.  

    That was how the hearing ended but lets back up some and see if I can figure out my shorthand notes and tell a little of this story.

   "I make a motion to dismiss", Laura Prigmore  offered the court to get the ball rolling at the 2:PM docket call.  

    She proceeded to argue that the JP Court did not have jurisdiction nor the power to execute a writ or an injunction.  There was a bunch more verbage stating  different powers that The JusticeCourt did and did not have according to Prigmore .  

    Judge asked Plaintiff's attorney, Justin K. Morgan, PLLC for his rebuttal.  It was golden, sharp, articulate and dead on.

   "Your Honor, Article 5, Sec 19 of the Constitution gives this court exclusive jurisdiction  in matters of controversy where the value is 200 dollars or less."  He predicted testimony would show the dog was 12 years old, had no pedigree andher market value was within the 2oo dollars giving the court EXCLUSIVE Jurisdiction.  "It is obvious that she has intrinsic value and that people love her". he gestured.   "They are in court arguing for her but there is no ascertainable market value for this dog."

There was a little more back and forth before Judge Blanchette said to Prigmore, "Your motion is denied."  He explained to the mistaken attorney that, "This is a small claims case and people use theJustice Court to see who has the greater right of posession So we will proceed."   

    Hoping to jump right into his opening statement, attny Morgan offered to begin with a brief opening statement.  "I would like to swear in the witnesses and then I want to invoke the rule."  Prigmore countered meaning she wanted all potential witnesses to be removed from the courtroom.  

    "Do you have a list of your witnesses?" Judge Blanchette inquired of "L" Prigmore looking through the documents that had been presented to the court in preperation of the hearing.  She didn't.  At this point, "L" Prigmore turned to the crowd and said, "If you are my witness, please stand up and tell the judge your name."  So the Judge had to interview each of her witnesses, clarify the spelling of each one and make his own list before he would continue the hearing.  

   Once Judge Blanchette moved past that bit of unprepardness on Sam Houston's attorney's part, He did have them stand and be sworn in as a group of near a dozen.  Then he instructed them all to leave the courtroom per Prigmore's invocation of "The Rule".  

    The plaintif's attorney, Martin, offered, "Judge. we are ok with the spouses of the plaintiff and defendant staying in the courtroom." and "L" Prigmore agreed to that.  

   As the group left the courtroom, Judge Blanchette called young William Vann as the first witness to the stand.

    Will Vann is the office manager and lead vet tech at the Coldspring Veterinary clinic.  He has completed his school to become a Dr. of Veterinary medicine.  He  is on the home stretch of completing that goal and following in his mother's footsteps to take over the well established practice.  

    His testimony was articulate, informative and based on clinic records and personal knowledge of events.

    Will Vann is not only a vet tech that treated Reba when needed. he is a neighbor to all the parties.  "L" Prigmore brought that point home when she challenged him at one point with, "How do you know Reba was in the Houston's yard?"  "Because I drive past their house everyday." Will stated.

     The soon to be, "Dr. Will" went on to clarify and offer evidence of several other facts.  His mother is called, "Dr. Merry" by all as an expression of the down home nature of her practice.

    The documents Will brought from the files proved that Reba was owned by and had always been owned by the McDonalds.  Operating on a pen and paper records methods, the clinic files reflected handwritten notes from the visits.  

    The file on Reba, Will recognized his own handwriting making the note that Bella Was the McDonald's dog.  She had been brought in by SJC Animal Control and Waggin Tails on seperate occassions and presented for treatement as a presumably abandoned dog. 

    "Can't you believe that a dog brought in by Animal Control is an abandoned dog?" Prigmore probed.   

   "Yes", he agreed nodding,  "unless I have personal knowledge of whose dog it is."  Will  Vann testified.

  More testimony and records following proved that there is plenty of area to wonder who is who in the animal control/rescue/market scene in San Jacinto County,  One thing leaving no doubt aboutthemself is Mrs. Houston's testimony, "I am Waggin Tails" 

 Then you throw in the SJC Animal Control (SJC AC) Having pens on Waggin Tails 501 3c grounds or are they Waggin Tail  pens on SJC AC leased and therefore SJC budgeted property?

  If a donation comes in the door of the SJC AC facility, is it accepted and applied to SJC AC  budget to offset costs or do you change hats, Mrs. Houston and take the money as Waggin Tails, your private entity?  

    It seems apparent that you, personally incur bills at the vet clinic under SJCAC and as Waggin Tails.   There is no document or record at the SJC AC level to determine if or when an animal is an SJC AC animal or transferred to Waggin Tails.  Those Vet services, according to testimony, range from wormer and rabies vaccine to euthanizing when necessary.  

   When Reba had a small subcutaneous growth removed at Ms. Houston's directive through the Waggin Tails, she had to get the owners permission to treat the dog.  They went to the McDonalds seeking permission to anesthetize Reba for the surgery.  It was granted and the charity paid for it.

  While the topic of billing practices was being testified to, Dr Will testified that as much as 40 percent of their billing is paid by someone other than the pet owner. "A parent, a neighbor or friend." Will noted.  "Sometimes it is just another pet owner or just someone in the waiting room who helps".  

    Laura "L" Prigmore put her client on the stand where he testified under oath that he had kept the McDonald's dog in his house, in his fenced yard, in his truck  and in his constable office and infact, done so in front of many witnesses.  "Parading" was the word she used and specifically called out every single law enforcement agency in this part of Texas ashaving witnessed Sam in posession of the Dog, Reba. 

     "That constitutes an admission under oath to theft according to State Statute" one case observer noted from the outside looking in.   "The Rangers could consider his testimony as a confession."

    "L" Prigmore used the term, "parading" so many times it made me think of one of Kamala's recent word salad assertions about smelling smoke so I looked the word parade up in my Websters and found this:  a pompous show : exhibition

     "L" Prigmore's assertion that Sam 'paraded' the stolen dog past every type lawman there is  fits that definition.  Especially when you consider that Sam's own testimony proves he knew the dog belonged to the McDonalds,  and that he had given his word to them not to pick up the dog or feed it or lock it in his yard or house ever again, because, "The Lord is my Shepherd"

Sam Houston put that in writing in a text message and then violated his promise with impunity by "parading" the dog at the fair wearing his badge and gun.  Not only his but other DPS and County Sheriff deputies his attorney insisted were being paraded in front of.    

Next one in the chair was Bobby McAdams, a long time friend, neighbor  and fellow City of Houston fireman with Sam Houston for years.

    When Attny Justin Martin asked Bobby to explain his connection with  the case, he shared that McDonald had asked him to call Sam and see if he had Reba. Bobby did and testified Sam responded, "Yes I do and I am not giving her back.  I prayed about it, Reba came back and I am not going to give her back"

Bobby testified that one thing Sam said he did not agree with was that he loved Reba  like one of his kids.  Bobby clarified about his and Sam's friendship with, "We have never agued."  It was when Sam said,  "Bobby I have all kinds of dogs over at the pound and they can come get any one they want."   that his friend opposed the move saying, "Those kids have had that dog their whole life."   "Cooper has never been without that dog"  Cooper, Bobby explained, was the youngest child at 9. of the older son he said, "Trent was little when LaDonna found Reba."

   That was my only opinion.  Sam is like me, he's old."  "Those kids have had that dog their whole life."

    Prigmore  took a roundabout painting a scenario where an owner failed to feed their dog and didn't that  constitute or imply relinquishing ownership?  Bobby McAdams shut her down with, "You got to have the dog to be able to feed it."

    Another young witness who volunteered walking dogs  at the SJCAC or was it Waggin Tails, testified she was the first to catch Reba by the collar because she was by the highway one day.  

     "L" Prigmore called a couple of witnesses to claim they overheard McDonald's father in law, Daryl Wells tell Sam the kids disn't have much time for the dog so Sam may as well keep it.

    Daryl Wells testified that he never said that and plainly stated he had no ownership of the dog to give away in the first place.

   There was a preacher and another that just knew the dog was Sam's  and that it has been.  

   Then the show was on.  Mrs. Sam Houston took the stand. what  a whirlwind that was.  Her and "L" Prigmore went thru the cursory tale of many faces concerning who was who when it came to SJCAC and Waggin Tails shadow box then she passed the witness.  

    Attny Martin asked Mrs. Houston a question that unleashed a diatribe of pent up expression in the form of rhetorical questions of her own such as, "What would you think if", or "How would you like it if." . . then asserted her own views in her own conclusions.

   The attorney just looked at the judge  during the initial barrage and gestured a "what do I do? after a good 30 seconds of her lamblasting.  

    Judge Blanchette broke in and instructed Mrs. Houston that it was her obligation to answer the attorneys questions and handed the floor back to McDonald's attorney.  He asked another simple question and was the target of another blast.  

   Judge Blanchette called her down yet again and more firmly instructed her to respond to questions the attorney asked.  Once more he gave the floor back to the plaintiff's attorney.  Once again, he asked a simple quetion related to the case and once again, a whirlwind of words was hurled at him with full force.  

    If there is one thing Judge Blanchette is about, it is taking care of busiess in a correct and orderly fashion in his Justice Court.  Not that he hasn't hurled a few timely bits of wit  in his day to make folks smile but his no nonsense about the business of the court showed plainly the third time he called Mrs. Houston down for her prating diatribes. 

   For the fourth time, Judge Blanchette handed the floor back to the attorney for his questioning.  He asked another simple, direct and relevant question. 

    It was instant that she ignored everything the judge just told her and she blasted him again with word storm.  It was almost like a cartoon superhero that could stir a whirlwind in thier hand and throw it across the room at you.

    The young attorney looked toward the heavens with a hands up gesture and said, "I pass the witness your Honor."  

    Several things are obvious at this point.  Mrs. Houston does not like to be told what to do or not to do by anyone.  She created the shadowbox dog projects and that she likes talking down to people.  

    Several from county employees, volunteers and community service workers have made that exact claim to The Sentinel in the past.  I saw it with my own eyes at the trial.

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2/27/2025 SAN JACINTO CO SHEPHERD

DOG TRIAL TODAY

JP 2 Judge Blanchette's court will be the location of the trial regarding the true ownership of the bitch, 'Bella'.  SJC Sheriff, Sam Houston has been accused of stealing the dog from neighbors in Pct 3 and even taking the dog a second time after it was reunited with the original owners once.  

   The ones bringing the case claim the dog is chipped.  

   As the operator of the animal control facility in SJC that offers the service of chipping dogs, some fear the chip has been reprogrammed or removed.

   It will be an interesting case.  The docket time is set for 2 pm today in Judge Blanchette's court.  SJC Sheriff has hired Laura 'Sissy' Prigmore to represent him.

3/23/2025 UPDATE 

STILL NO ARREST HERE

Sources indicate no paperwork has been sent to the DA's office by the S.O. as of last week.

I find it ironic that in the same week, Sam's buddy Sparta is seeking and order of expunction of the public records of his criminal domestic violence conduct.  

1/5/2025 SAN JACINTO CO

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TAKES BACK SEAT

Four days after the fervent oprayer for wisdom and guidance from God on "every Situation", Sam Houston's sheriff dept decides violence committed on a woman by a man male is not important or worthy of the time to even do the paperwork.  "If we arrest anyone, we  will arrest you for being the aggressor", the female victim was warned by Sam's deputy Brooks after him speaking to the abuser and his father. 

   In Texas, the officer does have the discretion whether to arrest or not,  unlike many states that have a mandatory arrest policy when evidence of an assault is present.  

That is bad enough and even to be expected when Sheriff's long time employee and prayer buddy,pictured above with hat in hand has been arrested multiple times himself for physically abusing women.   Sparta  was 'un arrested' once before the booking paperwork ink was dry and He has  even been 'not arrested' at all after his most recent documented incident of abusing a woman in front of witnesses, both overlookingswere at the hand of DA Bret Ligon's office in Mont Co.  Sam just likes to threaten to take away her kids if an attractive  young mother won't meet up with him one on one. 

    As appalling as these misogynist ass holes are, the fact that a female top law enforcement person in position in SJC to file charges has confirmed she has all of the evidence, She never bothered to call back and say she got it as requested.   Instead, she had to be tracked down to confirm it thus the 'back seat' headline.  The same father and son who claimed the victim was the aggressor also said she was on meth.  The victim  submitted to a drug test for the lady lawman proving they lied about that.  Still nothing.  It has been over two weeks since the injuries.   The victim went to  the hospital the next day because of those cuts, scrapes and bruises.   These two photos of her injuries are not but a small portion of the evidence.

1/11/2025 SAN JACINTO CO

SHERIFF APPEALS TO BIKERS AND DRUNKS FOR FUNDS

In a repeat of Sheriff Sam Houston's campaign strategy, he is holding a fund raiser at The Shifters Roadhouse biker bar just north of Coldspring according to a FB post.  

    It was about a year ago that a local man was killed when exiting the Shifters  Roadhouse parking lot on his motorcycle after drinking and pulling right out in front of an oncoming vehicle.   The FB post extols the alleged virtues of Sam Houston winning a court battle that never was.  The case was thrown out without the first bit of evidence ever being presented in open court by a corrupt, "the fix is in" judge.  In so doing, rampant election violations of law were ignored in San Jacinto County.  CHAMBERS COUNTY takes a dim view of election fraud and did something about it.  SJC, not so much.

1/5/2025BEAUMONT MEDIUM FED FACILITY

According to reliable sources, the New Orleans muslim  bastard that killed so many has a brother and another cohart locked up in the federal facility in Beaumont, Tx.  The two men, it was proven, have been in constant contact with the muslim punk that killed so many in New Orleans.  It is reported that almost immediatly after the attack, both connected inmates in the Beaumont facility were moved into 'protective custody'

VFD responds and puts out the fire.  No report of structure loss.  "We are not under a burn ban", one long time volunteer fireman aknowledged, "but it is too dry to burn." she lamented after the battle.  

    Remember these dedicated volunteers when the, 'Fill The Boot' donation drive gets underway.

WATERWOOD  1/3/2025  1:20 PM

FIRE FIRE FIRE

ON Waterwood Parkway.  Several SJC VFD units deployed.  Structures threatened.

'Sketchy' translation - inappropriate relationship with inmate.  We have not received the official documents yet.  I want to see if Byron Lyons asked for her employment records before he hired her.  That is one of those questions where neither answer is good.  

12/30/2024  POLK COUNTY

SHERIFF FIRES CORRUPT JAILER

According to FB posts, Polk Co Sheriff Dept catches and fires former jailer, Alyssa Young for bringing contraband into the Polk Co jail.  A simple perusal of her TCOLE service report showed her working a very short stint in the SJC jail several years ago.  We have not obtained official records regarding her tenure with SJC yet but one reliable source remembered her very short tenure at SJC as, "sketchy" 

TxDOT IMPROVEMENTS SLATED FOR 59  SHEPHERD TO TRINITY RIVER

HEARTFELT PRAYER FOR SAN JACINTO CO BY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICER

FULL LENGTH VIDEO OF THE ENTIRE CEREMONY

COLDSPRING 1/1/2025

FIRSTS ON THE FIRST

Today's swearing in ceremony will be held in the SJC County Courthouse for all of our local elections.Judge Faulkner will be conducting the ceremonies at 10 AM.  Nothing new there.  What is new are several offices in SJC being held by women.  For the first time, we will have a female Constable.   In Pct 1, Rae Phillips was elected.   a female commissioner in Pct 3  with the election of Ms. Crystal Dominy.    A female State Representative, Janice Holt will represent us in Austin .  Congratulationss ladies.  

12/18/2024 D.C. / East Texas  BIDEN COMMUTES SENTENCE OF LOCAL CROOK

FBI IGNORES CRIMINAL ACTIVITY . . . . .  WHY?

Could it be because the patent on the process of stealing elections comes from the federal level and to expose the illegal activity of the recent SJC sheriff race would draw attention to D.C.?

    Think about it.  Step one.  Allow a bunch of illegal voters to register to vote.

Step Two.  Allow a bunch of illegal voters to vote.

Step Three.  Illegally manipulate the results of the election

Step four.  Appoint a 'compliant' 'the fix is in' visiting Judge.

Step Five.  Fail to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate

Step Six.  Ignore that the prosecutor with jurisdiction's investigator is one of the criminal voters and that he 'fails' to uncover the crimes.  

VOILA - STOLEN ELECTION

1/3/2025 UPDATE AGAIN

A recent conversation with SJC Treasurer, Dee Dee Baily took the form of a lawn mowing if my butt was grass.  Ms. Baily started with being miffed that my website had her name on it twice and I had not called her.  She further stated that she had never referred the requestors to the DA and that, "I gave them everything I had" as far as records of payments to the county by Waggin Tails.

    My first step was to go back to my original source, the requestor, and tell them what she chewed on me about.  He chuckled and said, yes she did give us everything she had. . . . . . NOTHING.   I did assure the treasurer that in the interest of truth, I would submit an open records request for their original open records request and all the documents she provided them and then make any correction that was warranted based on what I could document.  That request has been submitted.

FRIDAY 12/13/ 2024

COLDSPRING   It is public record who has sought public records recently.  Interesting. Records indicate that Channel 13 HAS sought and obtained the records proving the crimes committed in the primary election.  

Sam Houston, it appears, will be sworn in January 1st as SJC Sheriff.  "If he does hire Stan Jolly as chief deputy,  SJC will have a pretty good Department", one long time contemporary of Jolly's stated, "as long as Sam stays in his lanepoliticking kissing babies and lets Stan run the department"    

COLDSPRING 12/9/2024

SJC DA DOES NOT BLOCK RECORDS

Two local citizens zealous of accountability and transparency in our local government did have opportunity to visit with SJC DA, Todd Dillon yesterday.  One of the citizens had requested open records from both the SJC  Treasurer and Auditor egarding the financial records proving Sam Houston's "Waggin Tails" dawg non profit is submitting the fees and monies due to the county from the county's animal control program to the county as required by law.  Both women deferred to DA Todd Dillon as the one who would allow the records to be provided but neither woman has made any records available.

    DA Dillion did assure the two citizens that he was not going to block them and even stated, "You will get the records", according to the men.  "They are just having trouble finding them." Dillon added to explain the past legal limit delay in providing the requested records.

12/10/2024 COLDSPRING 

SJC CHIEF DEPUTY STAN JOLLY IN THE WINGS?

Consistant but unofficial sources state that a significant number of the deputies and jailers that work for SJC Sheriff, Greg Capers are not going to stay on with Sam Houston at the helm. 

It has been circulated that Sam Houston is going to hire aman named, Jolly to be his chief deputy.  If he is the Jolly that worked in Humble for years, that Officer Jolly has a good reputation as an able and fair man.  

REAL ENEMY OUTLINED

AFTER SEEKING COUNSEL, The Sentinel will provide the original Power Point file to any who arrange  to obtain it from us but will not publish the video until more redaction takes place to avoid a "DOXing" law suit.  

    The file 0proves that hundreds of people were allowed and even encouraged to vote illegally.  The most agregious were the ones allowed to register AND VOTE the day of the election.  

Sam Houston's election is the biggest scam imposed on the People of East Texas in years.  The fix was in from the get go on the lawsuit from the judge that was appointed to the special prosecutor who wasn't.    they know but NO ONE from FBI on down seems to give piece of pig poop about it.  

    Oh Well.  it is what it is.  The Sentinel hereby issues the 1st Annual, "MAKIN BACON' Award to this whole election mess.  What an indictment of the criminal so called "justice" system.  ,   More like "Just Us" as one ardent advocate often stated. 

The Sentinel, yours truely takes full credit for the concept of the Makin Bacon Award photo but several contributed to the overall product.  First I found the pig picture on a hag farmer website.  Then  another found the cowboy hatand human ears on a Woody Wallace ad or FB publication that fit the hawg perfetly.  After sharing that photo with another photography expert, he found and imported the mirror shades to complete the conceptional idea.  We haven't confirmed but suspect the mirror shades were snipped right out of the, "Cool Hand Luke" movie.  

UPDATED 12/2/2024

SAN JACINTO COUNTY  11/22/2024

TEXAS RANGERS INVESTIGATE 'WAGGIN TAILS'

The DAWG Money' non profit established under the name of Sam Houston's wife is being investigated for financial misconduct per documents obtained from the Texas Attorney General.  A concerned citizen recently requested of SJC Auditor, Margie Ainsworth and Treasurer, Dee Dee Baily for an accounting of all of the contributions to SJC that the dawg money operation has made in the form of adoption fees, etc.  Auditor Ainsworth, who was fired from Polk County for illegal and unethical auditing practices there, nor SJC Treasurer Dee Dee Baily agreed to answer the request stating that they would have to run it by the DA.  

   Normally, only the local DA's in Texas counties assign a Texas Ranger to a case but this assignment comes from the DPS Asst Director according to a string of emailsbetwen investigators and the Texas Attorney General's office.

   In an interview with the lead C.I.D. investigator into the Dawg non profit, Agent DelGado was asked if his ongoing investigation was called off when the election contest case was thrown out.  He stated, "I heard there was a trial of some sort but I did not keep up with it because it had no bearing on my investigation.".        

When I asked him if there was a Texas Ranger on the case as indicated in the emails from him that I had obtained, Delgado stated that he would confirm that there was an investigation but would not give specifics about the investigation but did state again that, "Nothing changed" when the lawsuit was thrown out.

    On another note, Steve 'no draw' McGraw is out and one of his deputy directors, Freeman Martin has been SWORN IN as Texas Dept of Public Safety Director.

12/3/2024

T.C.O.L.E. SPOKESMAN CLARIFIES

Questions posed by several journalists and investigators concerning the exact status of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (T.C.O.L.E.) license held by former Pct 3 Constable, Sam Houston were addressed by T,C.O.L.E. officials today.  

11/19/2024 POLK CO

ARRENDONDO FAMILY HARASSES MARINE

Several complaints of intentional confrontation and harassment by members of the John Arrendondo family against Phillip McCulloch Jr have been made to the Polk Co S.O. with not much response according to sources close to the event.  Trespassing up to and including allegations of killing livestock on the McCulloch property along with intentional efforts to run McCulloch off the road have been reported to the S.O. and relayed to The Sentinel.  Stalking of McCulloch by the Arrendondo family is being reported. The back story in on the POLK COUNTY page.  

   The Silver Star Marine has hired a local attorney, William Lee Hon  to defend him on the Agg Assault charges.  

11/21/2024

PUBLIC RECORDS PROVE CRIMES

Once the Election Contest suit was  dismissed by Judge McCaig, the evidence collected in the investigation was obtained via open records request.  The evidence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that several hundreds of  illegal voters were registered and illegal votes cast in the primary race for SJC Sheriff.  Illegal votes that far exceed the 107 vote margin of difference between the two candidates.

   It has become clear why the Election Administrator and her staff resigned suddenly and retained a criminal defense attorney immediatly.  

  A recent NEWS STORY  many have seen of the election judge in Minnosota or some yankee state being arrested and charged with felony crimes for allowing unregistered voters to cast their ballots bring the local issue to the forefront.  

SJC  ELECTION  INVESTIGATION WIDENS AND NARROWS

    A fairly broad spectrum of evidence is leading to a narrow conclusion or two.

   Just like a prism divides white light into separate colors, scrutiny has spread the evidence into distinct categories.

   One of the categories appears to be the, "right under your nose" category.  

Judge McCaig said in his opening remarks at the initial hearing, "I have read the origitnal petitions.  I've read the answers.  I've read the motion for summary judgement and I've read the response to it.  so whnever you begin your arguement, use that as kind of a basis. I know you are going to want to lay some foundation which is fine, I'll give you every opportunity that you need to do that with that said, let's get on with it."

The EXACT language of paragraph III of the original petition covered venue and JURISDICTION and said this:

Now when it is embarassing what happened and no one in power seems to want to let the evidence get to court.  Now he lacks jurisdiction?

UPDATE 10/16/2024

RANGERS INVESTIGATE

Calls placed to Onalaska PD Chief, Byron Dunaway  have gone unanswered or returned.  Other sources indicate that the SRO has been placed on Administrative Leave as is normal under these type circumstances.  We have been able to confirm that the Texas Rangers are conducting an investigation and that the area in which the weapon was discharged is normally under video and audio recording.  We know already that the DA's office will be reluctant to discuss the case but we made a call to them anyway.  

    One LEO source indicates the case will be referred to the Grand Jury under Penal Code 22.041 (b) A person commits an offense if the person, having custody, care, or control of a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual, intentionally abandons the child or individual in any place under circumstances that expose the child or individual to an unreasonable risk of harm.

    According to records, The City of Onalaska issued a Glock 40 to the SRO, a gun with NO positive lock SAFETY mechinism.  

 No one has even mentioned charging the student, Ms. (Olgletree) Tompkins under the Penal Code 38.14 Sec. 38.14. TAKING OR ATTEMPTING TO TAKE WEAPON FROM PEACE OFFICER

That crime is a 3rd degree felony.

We did reach out to the Onalaka school Supt and found out the area is under audio and video cameras.  We have not been able to confirm if the Rangers obtained that evidence yet but presume they did.  

ONALASKA

STUDENT GRABS SCHOOL COP'S GUN

An Onalaska school student grabbed at a School Resource Officer's (SRO) gun causing a 'negligent discharge' of his weapon during an after hours school function on school grounds.  The narrative on facebook and other sources indicates she had challenged the officer about grabbing his gun to which he replied, "you can't, it is locked into the holster" referencing the, 'snap in' function of the hard plastic style holster.  According to sources, she grabbed at the weapon and it was his struggle to prevent it that caused the discharge.

    Critics claim he should not have been talking to the student at all.  The student is from an influential family so lets see where this goes.  The officer has never had a complaint made against him to The Sentinel.  

IONOS COMES THROUGH WITH IP INFO

A comprehensive list of the IP addresses of the devices that have tried to log into this wesite control panel that includes the date range of the 11 hack attacks was received at the sThe sentinel offices this morning,.  Thankyou IONOS Legal Team.

UPDATE

IONOS Legal team has agreed to a records search for the information we are requesting regarding the Internet Protocol address of the device used to attack this website.  They have already confirmed that the information we already have showing Onalaska as the geo location is accurate.  The actual IP address of the particular device will take a deeper dive into archive records  that the legal team has agreed to undertake.  

7/30/2024  ONALASKA/POINTBLANK

SOMEBODY DONE IT

After receiving the notice of attacks on my website, www.sentinelalert.com, a cyber sleuth volunteer extrapolated the below data off of my web site analytics page as the last ten log ins.  Accordingly, he adentified, 'Windows NT as a version employed by many municipalities that have multiple devices networked together.  Further research show Edge 126 and 127 are also written for networking systems.  That indicates that at least two computers on the, "Onalaska" geolocated server attempted to hack into our website.

    Following  good advice, we are seeking IP addresses for the router(s) these attacks generated from.  If they are indeed, City of Onalaska, we will open records request the data from their files to determine the likely perpetrator.  "All it tells me is they have something to hide and are scared" was the both of our observations on the matter.  Stay tuned for more on this story.

7/19/2024 ONALASKA

NEW POLICE CHIEF NAMED

Byron Dunaway, a former PCSO deputy has been hired as the police chief for the City of Onalaska and has now been on the job for two days.  Former Chief, Jessica Stanton has taken a job with the Polk County Sheriff's Office.  In an interview, she touted, "Politics" as the reason for her departure when asked by an investigative journalist but friends claim on FB that it was just for, "a better opportunity".  

    Our last investigation by open records request into Byron Dunaway showed no complaints or reprimands in his file before the one The Sentinel submitted in writing to sheriff Ken Hammack.  I just have to wonder if that one  made it into his file.  Dunaway and I had a run in over here in SJC while he was in uniform and a marked patrol vehicle for Polk Co. S.O. when he tried to be a bully me and push his weight around in my county.  Dunaway found out quick that The Sentinel pushes back.  We have not had anymore complaints since then.  

7/18/2024 ANGELINA COUNTY

STUA TAKES OUT DA, AIMS FOR JUDGES

Greetings to the Judges of Angelina County,

On October 19, 2018, I sent an email to multiple Judges of Angelina County notifying them I was going to sue them.  A copy of that email is contained in the attachments.  The name of the file is “2019-10-28 Filed No. 2019-0291 Defendant's Amended Motion for Recusal of Trial Judges .pdf.”  See pages 4-5.  I was arrested for false charges for a Facebook live video that I produced and broadcasted on December 6, 2018.  I believe the arrest was the corroborative effort and conspiracy involving Doug Conn, Judge Ball, Judge Inselmann, Joe Martin, and Judge White.  While I don’t directly accuse Judge Cassels or Janet Cassels in the conspiracy, their actions over the years contributed to the arrest.  Both of them sought to demonize me for requesting public information.   They couldn’t go within 1000 feet of the aforementioned Judges without telling them how bad I was and that I would harm them as well.  They set the stage for the events that happen regarding the false arrest at a minimum. 

In today’s previous email, I sent a notice of intent to sue. I am anticipating false charges as before.  Be well advised anyone that involves themselves in a conspiracy to falsely arrest me will see a different result than the last time.   I am well prepared and will make sure the property authorities are notified or others will on my behalf. 

EMS RADIO TRAFFIC FROM BUTLER CO WHEN DJ TRUMP SHOT

MADE IN CHINA

VOTER FRAUD IS REAL   Gov Abbott

POLLS CLOSE AS MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD SURFACES

The total number of proveable fraudulent votes cast in SJC has increased to a number north of 400 votes.  Sam Houston has failed to answer the petition for a contested election by the time prescribed by law.  Reliable sources state the more than one state agency is investigating.   Manifold voters voted in two counties.  At a minimum, the fraud effects Liberty and Montgomery County also.  The legal action is technically not against Sam Houston but rather the administration of the election.  

   It is unlikely the entire SJC election would be overturned if no other candidates join the suit. It would only be the sheriff race.   All indicators are that the process is on the fast track to get the initial ruling so the matter can move forward.  We will keep an eye on the 411th docket for a posting.   

SAN JACINTO CO 6/5/2024

APPOINTED JUDGE HEREDITARY SERVICE 

The Honorable 506th District Judge, Albert McCaig Jr. who has been appointed to preside over the contested sheriff race case in San Jacinto county has a lifelong history of service.  His dad served as county judge in Waller County before him.  Judge Albert McCaig Jr was appointed to the District bench by Governor Rick Perry in 2007  and has run mostly  unopposed since then.  As an attorney, he served as the Waller County District Attorney and has served as special prosecutor. His private practice ran the gambit from Intellectual property rights to personel injury.  

    Judge McCaig was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and got his under grad from S.H.S.U.  and his J.D from South Texas College of Law.  

Sentinel contributor notes that a good portion of the 'undecided' under vote may be folks only  interested in voting in the national election.  

SAN JACINTO COUNTY 5/8/2024

DID YOUR INDECISION MAKE THE DECISION? 

   With the republican primary run off elections bearing down on us in a couple of weeks, the question has been asked, "Was it your indecision that made the decision?"  

   In reflecting on the voting nubers in our recent sheriff's race , it was decided by less than 110 votes.  the undervote was 189 votes.  When you tally the total votes of each candidate and subtract that from the total number of voters who voted, 189 registered voters  stood at the computer and could not make a decision between the two men.  

   Are the undeciders going to decide the run off's too?  Every vote counts.  Devote to vote

4/9/2024 Livingston

DISMISSED

Interference with public duty charges were dismissed against Brandon White, "In the interest of Justice" according to documents filed in Polk County.  ADA Pierce made the motion and the court granted it helping rid the halls of justice of one more 'stinker' that Lee Hon 'let' on his way out the door.  

    Lee treated Polk Co Kind of like a soccer mom that has all the door and window locks at her mini van finger tips and some  bad gas.  Kids don't mind. . the process (ride) is the punishment.

POLK CO 2/16/2024 

ALL HAT NO CATTLE HON/COLEMAN LOSES

TEXAS SUPREME COURT SMACKS DOWN

Tommy Coleman lost his bid to punish the Polk Co Enterprise for a story they published after The Sentinel had published the information.  The suit was filed to silence the Polk County Enterprise.  That effort was effective on them to the point they even cut the reporter loose for her accurate, honest and true reporting.  Publisher Bowed down to pressure.  

A win for journalism no doubt.  Winner journalists don't bow.

2/6/2024  COLDSPRING PCT 3

"MINI TRIAL", BIG RESULTS

An 'Administrative Hearing' held in the SJC County Courtroom was referred to as a, "mini trial" by the Channel 13 reporter, "Mica" on yesterday's news cycle.  Her and her camera man were busy interviewing several of the key players in the case brought by Robert Finley over seized property.  

   What stood out to me were several characteristics of the hearing.

    Civil in nature, the hearing was well conducted by the Honorable JP 3, Randy Ellisor.   Having been the judge that signed the original search warrant, Judge Ellisor kept the focus on the facts pertaining to the property seized.  Understanding a citizen's desire to right every  'wrong', Judge Ellisor also stayed constant on the objective of the hearing.  He stopped Finley in his tracks on several rabbit trails, though true, not germain to the purpose of the hearing.  SJC District Attorney, Honorable Todd Dillon gave Finley some leeway in his pro se efforts but never the less, made several objections,all of which were sustained by Judge Ellisor.  Ellisor was not playing favorites but sustained them because DA Dillon was exactly right on his objections.  Dillon would almost apologetically but patiently and fully explain his objection to Mr. Finley.  In his duty to protect SJC, he had to stand on the principle that you cannot just enter statements into the record without providing evidence.  Either in testimony or exhibits.   

    Finley was fairly cool under pressure taking the objections in stride and respecting the input of DA Dillon on his efforts.   Finley was able to get Sparta and Sam Houston on the stand and ask some pointed questions.    Sam offered a lot of, "I don't recall" answers to Finleys query.  Houston tried to pass off the black powder rifle as one of the guns with no serial number on the list.  Finley asserted that the gifted gun has a serial number.  Sam did confirm he had seen the gun and had it in his lock up.

   When Sparta was put on the stand, Finley got right to what was on his mind.  "Do you always pull and AR-15 and point it at a pregnant woman when you conduct a search warrant on such a minor offense?  

   Sparta aknowleged that he pointed the gun athis son's wife with, "It is normal proceedure when . . ."  Finley probed deeper with, "You considered her that much of a threat?"

  Having interviewed Finley to some tlength and followed this case as it developed, it is my impression that THIS incident was the root cause of Finley's drive to seek justice.  The anger wasn't obvious but resided in the underlying circumstances.  

 Judge Ellisor made sure every single person had opportunity to speak their mind.  He even followed up with the two S.O. deputies that secured the perimeter of the operation and testifed they saw the guns but that none of the evidnce or property was ever in thier posession.  After all was done, Judge Ellisor said, "I have twenty four hours to render my decision on a case like this but I will do that in two minutes."  Judge ruled that the property was to be returned to Finley within 7 days.

Long time child advocate, Rosemary Covalt who did for H.I.S.D. what the legendary, Marvin Zindler did for TDC many years ago was so disappointed that Gov Abbot endorsed the Dark Money candidate, Holt over the staunch defender of our public schools system, Ernest Bailes.  "Why would you (/gov Abbott) want to tear down something we have all worked so hard to build?"   Covalt asked.  

    Abbotts T.E.A. seems determined to wrest the local control of public schools away from local voters one way or another.  Either decimate the funding source with vouchers or just flat change the values of X and Y in their arbitrary grading formulas till they "fail" and  take it over.  Then they can appoint their own board like they did in Houston and Shepherd.  Bring in their own 'boss'.

1/30/2024 

COLDSPRING 1//26/2024

JP HEARING AT COURTHOUSE

A Grassroots level hearing has, "gotten some traction" according to one criminal justice worker in San Jacinto County.  A hearing to resolve the dispute over personal property seized by the corrupt pct 3 constable has been moved from the JP office to the San Jacinto County courthouse dockett for February 6th.  The Honorable JP RandyEllisor wil conduct the hearing.  In an interview in one of three conversations with Peter Sparta yesterday, he shared that Sam Houston had called and told him he (Sparta) was the arresting officer and would have to testify.  

  Other documents received at the Sentinel Offices shows a request for subpoena for the SJC deputies who were at the scene.   The complainant was able to produce photographic evidence of a beautiful hand crafted muzzle loading black powder flint lock rifle that any prudent owner would keep in a safe.  

Below are  the top ten cities  in the USA that viewed The Sentinel yesterday.  

 1/24/2024 POLK CO 

BYRON'S BUSTED BUDGET BALANCES

Allegations that current Polk Co Sheriff, Byron Lyons is, "unable" to  operate within his budget were sustained by open records documents received at The Sentinel offices this morning.   The Polk County documents not only confirmed the problem of Lyons exceeding his budget causing Polk County to dip into the General Fund to cover his overages, the report notes it to be a chronic problem.  So chronic that at least one vendor threatened to stop doing business with Polk Co. S.O. unless they paid their bills on time from that point forward.  

1/22/2024 SAN JACINTO COUNTY

CORRUPT CONSTABLE COVERS CORRUPT COP

    Records recently received at The Sentinel offices  may be 25 years old but still reflect the character of the person they pertain to and the constable who keeps on covering for him.  Granted a deferred adjudication is not a conviction and thus the arrest could not prevent Sparta from obtaining his TCOLE but they do serve as proof he was arrested and charged.  Felony Robbery and Misdomeaner Theft are the two crimes recorded in the public record.  In case Sparta starts claiming 'Photoshop' again, we included the case numbers and other pertinenent info.   Not only does this document lend more credibility to the property owners claim that several guns seized by the Corrupt constable and his sidekick were not listed,  It also makes me wonder if allegations by a woman some years ago that Sparta took 800 dollars out of her purse during a stop may be true.  No proof was found and no charges were filed but the allegations were made in writing to the S.O.   "Yeah they tried to pin that on me but never did", Sparta explained when we discussed those allegations.

    This article is not really about Sparta.  It is about Sam Houston's hiring practices.  All of the info below was available to him as constable.  How does the ole saying go?  "Birds of a Feather"  

1/19/2024 CORRUPT CONSTABLE COVETS COLLECTIBLES

In a major breaking story out of Pct 3 of San Jacinto County, proof documents show a property seizure following a minor arrest have all the earmarks of out right theft.  Constable Sam Houston and his Captain Sparta served a search warrant on one of his constituents in Pct 3.  During that search, it is alleged that Houston found four empty CBD cartridges for a vape pen in a garbage can and a few marijuana plants in an outbuilding.  "I was growing them for my personal use" the property owner stated.  

    According to seizure documents obtained by The Sentinel, Houston seized a Jeep, several pieces of equipment, over a dozen rifles/shotguns and a quantity of ammo.  

   All of the charges were dismissed and the owner made several attempts to regain his property.   According to the owner, even our district attorney sent out written instructions to Houston to return the seized property to the rightful owners. 

    As I was interviewing Sparta about his recent arrest in Montgomery County, I broached the topic of this seizure and the property in question.  It is a case that The Sentinel has been investigating for over a year now.  When I asked Sparta how come the DPS lab results on the marijuana came back inconclusive for THC leading to the dismissal of all charges, Sparta's reply was, "There was not enough weight there for them to get an accurate test".  As far as all the guns and and ammo, Sparta stated, "They are locked in a room in Sam Houston's office."  

   The property owner had reached out to The Sentinel with a sense of frustration over a year ago so when I relayed Sparta's claims to him, he stated, "That is odd because just what was in a jar on my coffee table was enough to test."

    When you consider that the seizure of plants was in late May, the owners description of the age and maturity level of the plants proves there is a quantity of 'evidence' missing that was never turned in.   What became of it?  was the natural question.

    After The Sentinel obtained the seizure inventory list and spent time going over the documents with the property owner and his wife, they both agreed and claimed that there were at least 4 rifles that were not on the inventory list. Two SKS rifles belonging to the owner and his grown son, an AR 15 his wife purchased and owned and the most valuable being a hand made octagon barreled black powder rifle  in .50 calibre that was gifted to him.    They both expressed great concern that the ambigious numbers associated with seized ammo do not describe any where near what Houston and Sparta took.

   After reflecting on the situation and evidence questions, the owner shared, "I wondered why Sam never splashed my arrest and pictures of the guns and plants on his FB page like he usually does."  "Now I am convinced he just did not want any proof out there of what he took from me".

1/9/2024TYLER UTMB Spokesperson confirmed Gibson is alert and conscious and is, "Doing fine."  He could not take the call because he is in custody and the Sheriff's policy did not allow it.

1/8/2024NACOGDOCHES  SJC INMATE INJURED AGAIN

The San Jacinto County inmate who brought the prosecutorial misconduct case against ADA Freyer  has been injured again.  Lana Shadwick's client,Kenneth Gibson was moved to Polk Co Jail 'for protection' and Lyons brought in a TDCJ inmate, failed to find a weapon on him and exposed Gibson to him.  Gibson was stabbed and cut ending up in the hospital.  Byron Lyons failed to notify SJC Jail their inmate was injured until after The Sentinel ran the story.  

    Subsequently, Gibson's attny Shadwick  proved ADA Freyer had illegally searched his cell and taken lawyer client papers in Polk Coright under Byron Lyon's nose. Gibson was then moved to Nacogdoches County Jail for 'protection'.  

   Now Sentinel sources proved Gibson was in the hospital with spinal injuries and a brain bleed.  The Major at the Nacogdoches jail claims there was no assault and that Gibson, "took a fall".  

    We are seeking more information.

1/11/2024 SAN JACINTO CO

EMERGENCY ORDER SOUGHT

A motion to go ahead amd release Kenneth Gibson on a plea deal reached with the new prosecutor, Pro Tem  BEFORE the  life threatening incident occurred has been submitted by Gibson's attorney, Lana Shadwick.   To a court observer, like The Sentinel, it appears that intentional stalls in executing a 'time served' plus plea deal has allowed two seperate distant jails to  exppse an Arian 'tatted' prisoner to a known environment dangerous to him.  

    When questioned as to why he craw fished on the plea deal he already offered, the prosecutor Pro Tem admitted he had been pressured to do so by his phone, "blowing up".  Now we have three seperate counties involved with Liability for Gibson's safety.  

    Granted, ADA Rob Freyer took a butt chewing from The Honorable 12th District Judge, David Mooreman who stood up for the inmates, "lawyer/client privilege rights.  Still  this whole stalled out mess REEKS of retaliation.   Stabbed and sliced with razor wire in Polk Co.  No one reports it to SJC until I run the story.  Now a spinal injury and a brain bleed that was not reported to SJC until The Sentinel called Gibson's attorney asking why he was moved from Nacogdoches jail.   We were expecting to hear that the offered plea deal had been completed but, upon inquiry, we were notified that Gibson was in the Tyler UTMB hospital with a spinal injury and brain bleed.   

COLDSPRING  5/23/2023

Allegations of illegal search and seizure of legal mail and attorney/client privilege information have been leveled  against ADA Rob Freyer.  Where could he, in all his training, have learned it was ok to violate civil rights for a victory in court?