COLDSPRING 5/19/2025

MELEE ERUPTS IN HALLS OF JUSTICE

Turmoil and turbulence were the name of the game just outide the SJC DA's office monday after aMarine Veteran objected to ADA Dodson whom he accused  of changing the terms of an agreed on resolution to a felony case he was prosecuting.  

  When the vet looked over the document ADA Dodson put before him to sign, the vet objected to the percieved changes in rather plain language according to an eye witness.   

  The loud confrontation spilled out into the hall attracting the  attention of several others unrelated to the issue whom The Sentinel was able to interview.

    The elderly vet who has survived combat, heart attacks and even heart surgery still  doesn't have any back up in him so despite Dodson's comparative youth, badge and gun, the vet stood his ground.  Witnesses state that ADA Dodson offered to take the old man outside the courthouse and, "whip your ass" they stated.  

    By this time, the veteran's wife had positioned herself between the two hoping to prevent any violence.  The DA's secretary had come out into the hall yelling downstairs for the court baliff.  DA Dillon came out and ordered the vet and his wife to leave the courthouse.  

   She went to the SJC Sheriff's office and filed a complaint on ADA Dodson for threatening her husband.  It is being investigated.  

    One witness shared that ADA Dodson should be glad that old vet did not take Dodson up on his offer to step outside.  "He would have mopped the floor with him." the witness  shared.

    In Dodson's defense, he is under extreme pressure with the ADA Fryer, "In full campaign mode" and neglecting his work in favor of his politicking.  

2/23/2025 MONTGOMERY CO

PATRIOT PERSECUTION PATTERN PERSISTS

From the Bokeeters closing/confiscation to the recent action against a special forces veteran, montgomery co DA's office seems bent on wrong doing.     

   It is always telling when after  years of persecution, the prosecutor gets his butt kicked up between his ears for violating our Constitution and has to give back all of the property they confiscated.  What tells even more is when Ligon's office can find all of the confiscated  electronics and such in the evidence lock up but can't find ANY of the liquor.  

    Ms. Young won her litigation last December and is planning on reopening BoKeeters soon but Mont Co can't find a whole bar's woth of liquor they confiscated.   Hmmmmmm

      Then The Sentinel gets a call from a special forces vet about a brother in arms getting ransacked and railroaded in Mont Co.  It took a bit to get the open records from Ligon's office but when I did, the probable cause affidavit written by the lawmen stated plainly that the assaulted person could not identify anyone.  Vet was arrested and charged anyway weeks after the incident.  The one who was assaulted had confronted another special forces vet in the parking lot and got the brakes beat off of him for it.  All my interviewee did was get out of the truck and following his training to respond to trauma by checking the downed man to see if anything too serious was leaking out of his ears.   He did just  get his ass kicked.  So much so that another 18 year old kid in the back seat of the vets truck was scared senseless and hiding and hollering.  He never got out of the truck yet Monkey County charged him too.   What are you all drunk?  Maybe so with all that liquor.  Then the bombshell dropped.  

SAN JACINTO CO PCT 3    12/21/2023

SNACK TIME FOR SAM HOUSTON  AND HIS BUDDY

or, "A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND"

Some folks oughta just stay off of FB.  Peter Sparta is one of those.  There are a series of screen shots below off of Peter Sparta and Sam Houston's FB pages that have been submitted to The Sentinel by women in the community.  They speak for themselves.

    From sam Houston  threatening an attractive young female with jail and losing her kids if she did not meet up with him one on one  to later claiming he was "having Peter for Dinner", not the brightest bulbs in the box.  Sparta goes on to splain it in pictures. These two are over compensating for something.  Just how close are you two?  Sam has defended and endorsed Sparta for years and never did pull his support.  Even after Sparta had several arrests for domestic violence,Houston was batting for him.  Just ask yourself, is sam i am who you want hiring deputies in the county?

1/31/2025 Montgomery County

LIGON LOSES LITIGATION AND  LIQUOR

    After dragging an unconstitutional and tyrannical criminal case out for years, Ligon Loses.  His prosecution of the business owner of  a popular  Porter establishment for refusing to shut down during Covid met its Truth and Justice end this last December 6th.  Ligon got his butt kicked up between his ears with the Truth by a citizen and patriot who REFUSED to bend a knee to him and his corrupt tyrannical litigation.

   Yes her business was ruined, closed down and yes,she was broken financially but still refused to bend a knee to Ligon. She  prevailed in court.

    As it comes to the process of rebuilding her life and reopening her business, the case took an interesting twist.  Yes they could find and return her selized electronics.  Cash register, phones, computers, hard drives etc etc but Ligon CAN'T FIND HER LIQUOR STOCK.  

     Somehow that evidence has disappeared.  

    What is really interesting about that aspect  of the case is that during that time, Sentinel sources claim Ligon's 1st ADA was fired for showing up on a  crime scene drunk on his ass.  We cannot confirm any connection but for a dot connector, it is interesting.

     With Ligon losing the case, the business owner will be able to force Ligon to replace the lost liquor (can we say tampered evidence?)at tax payer expense it would seem.  

    Sentinel readers know that I have a penchant for giving the corrupt a nick name.  I call it the knick knack compulsion.  At this point, Montgomery County DA, Bret Ligon is henceforth to be known as, "Bret "The Liquor Loser" Ligon or just "Loser Ligon" for short. 

1/24/2024  FELONY ARREST CONFIRMED

Open records receieved today from the DA in Waller Co confirm that Sparta was arrested on a felony warrant for "Impersonating a Public Servant".  True to his word, Sparta did forward me a copy of the warrant when he got it but my copy arrived at the same time.  

1/19/2024 SPARTA DENIES FELONY CHARGE

In a lengthy interview with The Sentinel, Sparta claims he has only been charged with a misdomeaner charge out of Waller County.  Sparta claims that the 'Montgomery County Police Reporter' article is not only false but that the entire incident has been contrived.  

   On a FB comment, Sparta goes so far as to claim that he has not even been in Waller County.  

    The Sentinel did reach out to the Waller County DA and confirmed that as of yesterday, there is no indictment against Sparta in Waller County.  When questioning those findings to a seasoned criminal justice person, They stated, "As recent of an incident as this is, it would be highly unlikely for an indictment to come down this soon."   Sparta does admit the arrest did happen in Montgomery County at his ex wife's house.  Sparta was booked in at Montgomery County and made bail but was never transferred to Waller County.

   In reviewing the article, it does not state that Sparta was in Waller county but that the charges are out of Waller county.  During the interview with Sparta, he revealed that he has been on other I.S.D. Property attending U.I.L. Competitions recently that a Waller I.S.D. bus may well have been at.  

   The Sentinel did determine that the Waller County Judge, The Honorable Judge Duhon signed the warrant for Sparta's arrest.  His secretary, per the judge's instructions,  would not confirm or deny the Felony vs Misdomeaner question but required an open records request in writing.  Those have been submitted.

MONTGOMERY CO

SPARTA ARRESTED AGAIN F3 CHARGE

The beleagured constable candidate has been arrested yet again in Montgomery County.  The Montgomery Co S.O. arrested and charged and booked Sparta on a felony charge of impersonating a public servant in Waller County.  He missed the candidate 'meet and greet' held tonight in Coldspring.  Not to fear, the void on Houston's coat tails was quickly filled when Michael Flynt showed  up.  Stands to reason that he was not there to meet candidates since he has either run 'with them' or against them all.  Was Flynt in'candidate mode'?

POLK CO 1/11/2024

OLD SCHOOL DIES HARD

Mitchell Newman, Pct  1 Deputy Constable has decided to run for commissioner.  Nothing wrong with that.  When Newman has to  devolve back to the Lee Hon tactic of using a lawsuit filing against someone and pass that out but fail to include the final disposition paperwork, that stinks.  Even though those documents that prove their intended victim won and was exonerated are there too, you are stirring stink that smears on your self instead of your target by witholding that info from the voters.  

    Sentinel sources have pictures and even video of Newman passing out page one but shuffling the final dispostion documents to the back.  All that tells me Mr. Newman is that you KNOW you can't beat Commissioner Guylene  Robertson fair and square so you want to cheat.  Not happening.  Here is your come uppins.  Two things tell me all I need to know.  Using a Lee Hon tactic and you and Byron Lyons signs butting up together on the same T posts around Pct 1.  You know well that the attorney apologized for MISTAKENLY filing that lawsuit when the record proves all was paid in full long ago.  You ruined your credibility Newman and did it on video.  Not smart.  Earth to Newman, Those days are OVER.

POLK CO 6/17/2024      HON'S HOOEY HALTED

SANCTIONS APPLIED 

William Lee Hon's former ADA, Tommy Coleman was sactioned  and fined 25,000 dollars plus ordered to pay lawyer fees in a civil case Coleman filed and lost.   In Hon's desperate attempt to silence Polk County Publishing during his failed efforts in a judge race, he had his lil buddy file a lawsuit against them.  

   Hon proved his involvement in provoking the lawsuit by publishing a scathing legal opinion that attacked the premise of my origianl story.  He also made a  personal endorsement of Tommy Coleman.  Having authored the first story that led to the lawsuit, it was only after the Enterprise reporter, Valerie Reddel picked up the story and used the evidence The Sentinel published as proof in her publihed story that Coleman sued.  

     A more accurate estimate of total costs to Coleman for letting Hon manipulate him into a stupid lawsuit has been stated as nearer to ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

    Forgive me for chuckling when I remember Coleman's FB post early on after filing the suit that a reader submitted.  Coleman commented about how someone was going to buy him a new Corvette.   That reminds me of the FB meme Coleman posted two days after having me indicted on several felonies.  It said, "It is all fun and games until someone gets indicted".  The Sentinel published the meme a reader submitted with the reply, "Do you think I am playing Mr. Coleman?"  We the people had the victory.

    Coleman moved to Jefferson County DA's office after his sound defeat of any political ambitions here.  

    As an investigative journalist, I did feel compelled to warn that office that they had hired a lieing, cheating lil exculpatory evidence witholding punk as ADA that would compromise the integrity of their office.  

    Latest word out of Jefferson County is that Coleman has been disciplined there for just such actions.  The Sentinel is seeking records to confirm or disprove those allegations.   

   An attorney friend asked me, "Steve, why do you think they sued The Enterprise for the story and not you?"

  " That one is easy.   My attorney and that I don't own anything. :

STATE LEGISLATURE ADDRESS' DA's AND CAD's

A press release from the office of State Rep Ernest Bailes, linked to the headline, shows that our District 18 Representative has been listening to We The People.  

   Issues that have been addressed right here on the pages of The Sentinel  have made their way to the floor of The House of Representatives.

   Rogue DA's  and less than responsive CAD BOD's have definately made the news in this part of Texas.  

   A sad report is that even after the ordeal with former Chief Appraiser, Sherri Schell, the BOD did not clean house sufficiently.  The rouge appraiser neice of Schell, according to public records, seens to have engaged in retalitory abuse of her official capacity.  More on that as the story develops  but suffice it to say, as deeply as she was involved int the corruption under her Aunty, Wendy Lewis should have been given her walking papers too.  Instead, she was left in place and it appears, could not resist the temptation to hand out some targeted paybacks.  

COLDSPRING 3/20/2023

CLARIFICATION OF SENTENCING STORY

In the recent sentencing hearing of tevinos Cook, CR12778, more Sentinel research indicates that Judge Kitchens took the recomendation of the Probation Department based on their PreSentencing Investigation Report (PSR) when he sentenced Cook to the Deferred Adjudication.  According to the Prosecutor, Todd Dillon, he requested 10 years in TDCJ.  The fact remains that the prosecutor could have kept the decision out of the hands of the judge and if his case had been stronger, he may have done that. 

DA's Special People

Monday, December 5, 2022

It would seem that being the DA's special complainant doesn't just get you paid out of the DA's special fund or get you paid days off when you hurt yourself riding ATV's on the weekend. It will also, according to court documents, get a justice of the peace to say a document he has, and sent The Sentinel, does not exist. Unfortunately for JP3 Robert "Dooley" Johnson the corrupt "Bill Li the Kid" Hon is leaving him holding the bag. Johnson said in a email with The Sentinel that the affidavit wasn't signed, but if you look at said document it was signed electronically by LPD officer #222 then "notarized" and signed by another officer so it was actually signed by two. In order to  give an air of equality to the remaining charges both Jessica Adams and the woman she drunkenly fought at the local What-A-Burger were charged with disorderly conduct and both given the exact same "punishment". It seems Hon really is going to "burn it all down on his way out" as one court employee put it and that includes every branch, twig, and leaf of the Polk County Justice system.

Once bit, twice shy has been the modus operandus for the City of Shepherd in regards to forming a police department since the debacle former 'chief', Chris Simmons put them through.

   This time around, the city is forming a PD and has selected a chief with an extensive background in law enforcement and a great depth of training to lead the new project.  Most importantly, they selected a man with integrity this time. Clint Headley, t

COLDSPRING 11/23/2022

FORMER CONSTABLE UNDER INVESTIGATION

Evidence obtained by The Sentinel proves criminal acts committed by former Pct 4 Constable Lou E. 'louie' Rogers.  This evidence is indisputable, irrefutable and documented.  

   It is NOT the evidence against Lou for murdering Dennis Ray Hollis at the Sundance.  It is not the evidence of personal testimony of a witness that saw Lou Rogers pick up Carter White the day he was murdered and his body dumped on Harrell Road  with the bullet dug back out of his brain.  It is not any of the evidence used and published on The Sentinel that cost Lou his bids for constable and judge of SJC.  It is NOT the evidence that kept lous vote at 7 percent on his last run.  It IS evidence that will put him in jail.  

Stay tuned for more info as the investigation progresses.  

10/25/2022 EAST TEXAS

DEMOCRATS AND DUMBASSES CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT

Why this nation will never fold and why conservative Christianity will win come election day.  SCOTS IRISH and in particular Ulster Scots heritage.  It is that simple.

Sherry Thompson <sat1956@live.com>(Thursday, September 15 22 12:52 pm EDT)

I have spent 27 years of my life teaching Language Arts and being a voracious reader. While trying to decipher your rambling, unprofessional article on Calvary Christian Academy and Brandi Wright, it occurred to me that the author of this rag could use some of Calvary's lessons and Ms. Brandi's take on a quality education. My granddaughter has attended CCA under Brandi's administration and we have been very impressed with the warm, loving Christian atmosphere and the knowledge and skills our granddaughter has acquired. Whatever it was that you hoped to convey was not realized in this ragtag, childish conglomerate. And when you call someone a THIEF, please spell it correctly. "I before e except after c...

Hi Ms Thompson,

First of all, thanks for being a Sentinel Reader.  It is people like you that keep me going.  When I was first called to this ministry, I made a committment to The Lord that if a certain number of people would read my website per day, that I would continue it as long as I am able.  Even during the time I was stricken with severe Corona virus just over a year ago and did not touch the page for over a month, my core readership stayed above that number.  It has been a struggle at times but He always makes a way.      It has been even more challenging since the Rona robbed me of much of my vision but still, He enables me.  

    Publishing The Sentinel is like having a tiger by the tail.  I can't let go or it will turn and rend me.  It is no secret that my writing and publication of evidence proof documents often angers people whom I expose for violating the public trust they hold.  Powerful people.  No one is immune to scrutiny and Truth demands scrutiny.  The Sentinel 'customer' list includes Police, politicians, preachers and teachers and school administrators.  There are plenty of every category that can verify that claim.  There was one corrupt man in power that I told, "You will think my pen is bufford Pusser's fence post before I am through with you."  It is that 'fence post' that keeps the Tiger at bay.

    Before we go any farther, let's explore our common ground.  We were both born in a very good year.   We both are grandparents.  We both have grand kids that attended Calvary's Christian Academy.  We are both extremely pleased with the progress our grand kids made under the tutelege of CCA.  We both appreciate the warm and loving environment at Calvary Baptist Church (I raised three boys to men there)  and we both read The Sentinel and try our best to correct the errors when we find them.   Here is where we may part ways a bit.  Due to the antics of Brandi and her gang of thieves, I have vetted her and discovered that she has absolutely no education that qualifies her to teach.   Her role in the Calvary Baptist Church school ministry was as an administrator.  A position she admits on FB she was HIRED to fill.  It is the pastor that has a Doctorates degree in Christian Education, not Brandi.  

     Have any of you ever heard the pastor introduce himself as, "Dr. Minter"?  Me either.  It is always 'brother Mike'.  

    Brandi's best effort to cripple the ministry fell on barren ground and ole slewfoot snatched it up as his own.  Many of the original teachers that worked in the CCA ministry in the beginning stepped back up to support their pastor and his far reaching vision of quality Christian Education in our community.  Even you aknowledge the success God  has given him.  Despite Brandi's best efforts, the CCA opened right on time and carried on with the excellent education and still  provide the same warm and loving embrace of the students there. Granted, the school had to hire another administrator, order all new teaching materials because theirs were stolen by a thief (did I spell it right?).  The school had to jump thru some hoops for desks and such because theirs were stolen by a thief.  The school is operating blind as far as grade records and student progress because all of the Calvary Christian Academy school records were stolen by a thief.  

   I guess I have made my point Sherry Thompson.  Thanks for providing me one more opportunity to expose Brandi Denea Wright and her thieving ways and dishonest heart to our community.      

   Not to mention Ms. Thompson, now you have revealed yourself as a person who supports and condones lying and thieving as long as there are no spelling errors.  lol.

   Thanks for making me smile so early this morning when I discovered your comment.  

     Now let's get to the real issues.  Is Brandi going to suffer criminal charges for her crimes?  I say yes.  There are a few lessons that I have learned over the years in observing politics in East Texas.  Elected positions (like DA and Sheriff) serve at the pleasure of the informed voters.  If you have read much of The Sentinel, you know that I have chastized the FBI and DPS for not arresting or charging Lee Hon for his crimes.  He doesn't care if he stinks but you will notice (as he has now I am sure) the voters do.

The smart politicians  don't like  other people's stink smearing on them come election time.   That is why the smart ones do the right thing and do it all the time.  Brandi's antics are a stench in the nostrils of God and His people.  (informed voters)

   One last point and I will let you off of the cutting board for this round Ms. Thompson.  

    Lord knows that I have said some unflattering things about many scoundrels in the past.  The vast majority were defeated at the polls.  Right now, I can't think of a single one that wasn't.  Why don't they sue me? One did.  Keith Black a perverted former probation officer that didn't like the story I wrote about him perving on his probationers.  Sentinel readers will remember.  Sissy Prigmore and Molga Lovett pounced on me with a 100K lawsuit.  

    So Ms Thompson, you have been officially sliced and diced.  You can go now but just as that Charlie Daniels song says,  "come on back if you ever want to try again". . . . . hmm the creative juices are flowing now.

The devil came down to Coldspring

She was looking for a school to steal

She was in a bind and way behind

Not walking in God’s will

When she came across a preacher

Trying to build a school and failing not

The devil jumped up on her ministry stump

And said, “preacher, let me tell you what”

I guess you didn’t know it, but I’m a school builder too

And if you care to trust me there, I’ll build this school  for you.

Now you build a pretty good school man but give this girl her due

I’ll bet my skills against your schills cause I think I am better than you.

The preacher said, “My name is brother Mike” and I’ll be fair

And let you there because that is just what I do

The devil opened up her bag and said,

“Ill start this show”

Ink flew from her pen’s tip as she let everyone know

“I own this school and gonna take it down the road”

She stole the records and preacher’s trust

Then made another load.

Fire on the mountain, run boy run

Devils in the house

Of the Risen Son.

Chicken in the file cabinet

Pickin out those

Records showing what each kid knows

Then the crew joined in looking at desks

And said, “let’s just take the rest”

Preacher came along and said,

Well you are pretty bad ole mistaken one

But sit down in that chair right there

And let me tell you about The Son.

He’s the one that took your sin

Bad as it might be

Took it all upon Himself

When He was nailed to that tree

Calvary will get past your worst

And your world will see

our faithful servants will forgive your sin

then gather around me.

People that I know and trust

will step in and fill your gap

just because they plainly see

you sitting in the devils lap.

What God is in 

will continue to grow

I just hope someday you see

What you did was to HIM, it wasn't even me.

POINTBLANK 4/26/2022

'AUDITORS' ATTACK SENTINEL

or, "drama queens unite, threaten lawsuit"

In an early morning call right at the witching hour, "News Now Ninja" and the unidentified white male engaged in a conference call to demand retractions on stories that The Sentinel published in the past.  News now neenja, Sentinel readers will remember, was the masked man who video'd the clerks deputy while filing a Writ of Habeus Corpus and ridiculed the clerk for asking him how to spell Ninja.

    We took issue with his underhanded attack against a girl when the culprit in the false charges was the recently defeated DA, William Hon.  Neenja went after the clerk, The Sentinel went after the DA.

    Our reply to the demand for retractions was to put their argument for the retraction in an email so I could study it and we would go from there.

     Neenga threatened to write me a threat to sue letter and asked what I would do about that.  

   "Put it in the stack" was my reply.

For News Now Ninja and his attorney.

I, Stepen C. Watson hereby WAIVE the required 30 day notice required by law to demand a retraction before you can move forward with your lawsuit.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;

I, STEPHEN C. WATSON, SOLE OWNER AND PUBLISHER OF THE 'SENTINEL ALERT' located at www.sentinelalert.org, hereby WAIVE the thirty day notice so you can file your suit this morning.

How bout that kneenja?

Steve Watson-Publisher

TRINITY TRIANGLE 4/10/2022

WALKING WOODY JOINS DOUBLE TAP CLUB

The infamous 'double tap' suicide in HPD back in the early sixties, right inside 61 Reisner st was just one in a string.  Brandon White's grandfather , an HPD officer wrote abou the incident way back in the day.  Watts story

     Fast forward to the D Ray Hollis murder at the Sundance in Coldspring.   Rogers claimed it was a suicide but the autopsy showed that it was ruled as undetermined.  Once again two shots.  One in the leg and one in the head.  Lou Rogers, Constable's gun used.  Lou Rogers' gun taken from his hands within seconds of the shots being fired.  The gun was taken  by another Constable working security there.  He did not see Lou Rogers pull the trigger as he was facing the crowd but did take the gun seconds after the shots.  Autopsy shows a gun barrel and sight bruised into D-Ray's temple.  Trajactory back to front and up a little. Cosnistant with eye witness who alleges Rogers had him by the hair of the head from behind and shot him in the temple.

  We will leave the Carter White murder out of this story since the bullet was dug back out of his brain and his body dumped on a back road.  Never mind an eye witness alleges he saw Rogers with the man the evening of the day before his body was found.  It was information the Rangers didn't want.  I know because I tried to give it to them.  "Let us make an arrest on the Natasha Atchley case and we will take a look at that".  (4 years ago)

   Then there is the Trevor Potter killing of Joshua Johnson.  This one is on video.   Johnson surrendered, on all fours, no weapon near him looking up at the officer, THEN Potter pulls his service weapon, Takes aim, shoots the man between the eyes.   After Johnson collapses onto his  face, Potter takes aim and puts one more round in the young man's temple violating the most basic precepts of good law enforcement.   Shoot center mass.  Stop the threat.  Render aid.  

      The Trinity County version has its own questions.  Go in with no back up (no witness) same execution style 'Double Tap' instead of center mass, stop threat, render aid. 

Editor, I can’t speak for others but I am fed up with the lying from some of our elected officials and their cronies. It has been said that a lie can be half way around the world before the truth can get its boots on. That is a sad truism. On the bright side though, these boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do. What gets me is that it is so easy to determine the truth in many matters yet folks sit at home within a few blocks of our courthouse and still believe a million dollars was stolen from us when the outside audit reports are public record. These records show, (as been stated over and over) that there is no money missing, just planned deficit spending. If you read the reports, you will further find that errors made by the then auditors (Stanley Liles and asst Bill Law) were “simplistic” in nature. Either the auditors (Liles and asst Bill Law) were stupid or gave Judge Adams a ticking financial time bomb set to go off just before elections. Bill Law had failed to beat Joe Adams at the polls the first time. Could Bill Law have done this on purpose? Why did Liles resign so quickly? How come Price and Rogers and their cronies continue to perpetuate the “missing money” lie? Why do people still believe it when the record proves otherwise? Remember Mark Price’s “vote for change” campaign slogan? That part was true because it changed from an office of Honesty and Integrity to a shameful platform of political persecution. From Price’s last full page ad just before elections falsely accusing his opponent’s campaign of “stealing county postage to mail campaign flyers” and an admonition to the voters to “bring those flyers into my office after the election as evidence” to his threatened prosecution of little ole me and then filing false charges, Price has done nothing but play politics with his office. If Price had taken his railroaded “no-bill” on the porn charges against Bill Law and went on about his business, Bill Law would still be in office. I say ‘railroaded no-bill’ because if you remember, Price took it to the Grand Jury BEFORE he got the investigative report back from the DPS computer forensics expert. Not good law enforcement practices. But no, Price has to file bogus charges on folks, devastate them financially, emotionally and then drop all the charges and admit (him and his lead investigator) under oath that they had no evidence and never did have any evidence to prove the charges. How much did that cost our county? How many lives did that wreck? Who is standing up wanting the county to pay their legal fees? Me, and dozens of other folks, saw Johnnie (Lou Rogers step son) SLAM the door to the district court room open during the closing arguments of Lou’s trial the other day. That prosecutor was hitting Lou hard and the grown man lost his cool and vented on the bar of the door as he exited the room in anger. I saw (see enclosed photo) and heard Johnnie approach Judge Bourneaus in the rotunda and offer to shake his hand and apologize for making the noise. The Judge declined the handshake and shook his finger in Johnnie’s face and said “IF YOU EVER…………….etc, etc” and then commenced to chew on the young man for several minutes. Later, I approached young Johnnie and asked if the Judge had chewed that behind a little. Johnnie looked me right in the eye and said “Oh no! I just told him I was sorry for making the noise but that I tripped on the threshold when I was going out”. Where does a young man learn to try and lie his way out of trouble, even to a district Judge? Maybe it is the example of a step-father who claims a young man took his own life with even though a witness said Lou had him by the head and shot him dead. Or how about when the witness statements say that Young Dennis Ray Hollis was beaten in the head by a flashlight before being shot is supported by the wounds to his head noted in the autopsy report. Or how about a bullet trajectory that, in my simple understanding, precludes a self inflicted wound but matches exactly one eye witness account. And why does the autopsy say there were NO DRUGS in DRay’s system and only a .03 alcohol level yet rumors abound saying otherwise. Why do many in Lou’s camp claim that the autopsy report says it was a suicide when it actually says undetermined and the Medical Examiner ENCOURAGES law enforcement to look further into the shooting? How about the public record that shows Ms Law was one of the grand Jurors who participated in no-billing Lou Rogers in that shooting? Stephen C. Watson Pointblan

LIVINGSTON 3/12/2022

WILLIE LAW OR LAW WILLIE????

Documents obtained via open records from Liv PD prove that other than a sentence structure of a sentence or two, the probable cause affidavit and the 'Polk County Today" article are virtually identical.  Is Willie writing the affidavits or  is the PD writing the articles?  Neither answer is good.

POLK COUNTY 2/16/2022

After a having conversations with both of the ladies involved in the story that was here, I have taken it down for a short time to gather some more evidence before reposting it with more complete details.  Details that in this reporter's humble opinion, ought to provide Lee Hon with free (to him) federal housing for about 20 years in order to show all the DA's that when you take an oath, we expect you to uphold it.  

What seems to be on everyone's lips is the question about where did I get the graphic of Lee Hon's fb message to Ms. Purvis.  

Prior topublishing the story, I had never spoken with Ms. Purvis or Ms. Darling (Nelson).  Neither of them provided the graphic or the filed documents to me. Ms Darling did clarify that the allegation she ever had lunch with DA Hon was false although she does confirm speaking with him on more than one occassion.

   Several are concerned that Lee Hon will come after me for posting the message and try to get my phone away from me to find it.  We all remember how he did the Polk Co Clerk, Schelena Hock over a graphic for his buttie, Chris Lima.  Polk County taxpayers will remember that Commissioner's court (and rightly so) allocated 50 thousand dollars for her defense against Hon.  Sentinel sources claim the final tally was closer to 80K Hon spent on a case he not only lost but that made him look like a FOOL.  Let me post a little chronology for those who didn't follow that too closely.

COLDSPRING < 2/2/2022

MAN DIES IN COURTHOUSE

According to a county official, an elderly man passed away today in the upstairs bathroom of the San Jacinto County courthouse from an apparent heart attack.  No official word or name released but it is speculated that he was visiting adult probation dept when he  was stricken by the fatal event.  Sources say he had family who worked there.

09/17/2021

Singing the Corrigan blues

    Since August seventh one Texan has been fighting to get public records out of one highly corrupt city. We have now obtained proof this city is destroying public records. The city has not sent for one OAG opinion but has denied over a dozen records request citing what they believe the OAG will say. A few of those request included where for complaints on officers. The city would have you believe there have never been complaints on any of their officers. Yet we here at the Blue America News have received copies of two complaints filed against one officer and the chief of police Darrel Gibson signed and received August 3rd. Yet when we requested copies we were told none existed. Speaking to some citizens and supporters we found another persecuted citizen who sent us an email where Luan Tatum (attorney for the city) says "CPD destroys these file items when an officer leaves employment." in regards to complaints.

    Which is an awfully convenient way to get rid of unwanted records but it flies in the face of the mandatory minimum retention periods for records commonly found in public safety agencies. According to the state minimum you have to at least keep them 2yrs after a determination up to permanent depending on whether the agency decided there is a reason to investigate themselves and the outcome of the investigation. Nowhere that we could find did it say anything about whether the officer was still employed at the agency or not. The city of Corrigan is about as transparent as a brick wall. Of course they know the penalty for this will be a slap on the wrist, because just like TCOLE or any other government agency tasked with keeping governments in check it has no teeth.

    Readers may remember the story we did on a call log still yet to be produced for the day officer's Brown and Molina violated Mr. White's First Amendment RIGHT to FREE SPEECH by saying they received a call that someone was offended!!! We the PEOPLE are tired of elected and appointed public officials using the law against us while at the same time not obeying it. Who called? The Mayor? The Police Chief? If it was a public official the people want to know. Mrs. Tatum in an email to Mr. White sent Sept. 13 says:

Mr. White,

You are claiming you never received the call log. I am forwarding this email to you that i sent on August 13.

Then attached is a "WARRANT OF ARREST" for Mr. White for allegedly trespassing at a city park he says he has only ever been to once in his life and has never been lawfully asked to leave. The evidence attached is a trespass warning signed by Mr. White but the location is for the PD and not all city property, one wonders if "Yankie Court" isn't an apt. name since Judge L.W. Yankie will apparently sign anything the Gibson's bring him. Speaking of affidavit for arrest Mr. White's initial arrest in Corrigan for burglary of a police car fails to establish the crime yet when Tracy Brown of the Corrigan PD brought that before the Honorable Tom Brown he signed search warrants for Mr. White's phone, camera, and sd card, yet the Corrigan PD took two phones both according to Mr. White and a receipt from Samsung contained 1T storage. Mr. White contends he has never received a search warrant for his second phone, a knife he had on his person, and a selfie stick that were also deprived him that day and have never been returned.

    Mrs. Tatum now states the cameras outside the PD do not work properly. In a response to record request she has stated there are no audio/video records of Mr. White's arrest at the hands of Corrigan PD at their station and that all request must now be done by certified mail. Funny we at Blue America Newsl have watched multiple videos where city employees repeatedly hand over a business card with publicrecordsrequest@cityofcorrigan.com and say that is the only way to get public records. She has replied to multiple people including Mr. White and the Sentinel through email but now is requiring certified mail just for Mr. White for daring to stand up to her tyrannical behavior. As we keep quoting "their power is in ignoring us".

-Shaggy

HOUSTON 5/24/2021

BIG CITY TACTICS IN POLK CO

"In addition, both the precinct’s constable and the Harris County district attorney’s office knew about the abuse but “refused to take any action and rebuffed anyone who complained,” the suit alleges."

     This lawsuit story linked to the headline, right on the heels of the Suicide Confession of another Pct 1 deputy constable just days ago should convince any that The Sentinel sounding the alarm about human trafficking and underage prostitution by a corrupt few cannot be relegated to the pile as "conspiracy theories". 

      It isn't just Polk County or Harris County.  My first foray into the underbelly of the few corrupt LEO's was in Liberty county as a reporter for the Advocate.  After exposing the two meth labs in Plum Grove and Rye, Texas, I was shown plainly just how dark that cartel is.   

Editor,

Knowing the unethical and even criminal campaign tactics used by the self-professed ‘Pac’ members in the past, I fully expected some type of ‘Liar Flyer’ that Ms Caroline Taylor of Willis has circulated.  As with the so called “stolen postage” lie printed by Mark Price in the last paper before his election, they don’t care that it is not true.  By the time someone gets around to proving it false, the election is over.   It is politics as usual for the ‘Pac’.  Ms. Taylor has been their puppet flyer person several times.  Isn’t she Lou Rogers’ sister n law?

Since her flyer was addressed, ‘Editor’, I am hoping that someone would dare attempt to give these allegations legitimacy by publication on the editorial page of the News Times. 

As a follow up to my letter last week, here is a copy of the petition showing Bob Boring illegally signed it twice.  Feel free to get this public record for yourself from the county. 

Isn’t it odd that every time I expose the criminal activity going on in Mark Price’s office, or the Constable’s office in Pct 4, or the Commissioner’s office in Pct 4, somebody in the ‘Pac’ hollers, “Steve Watson is a convicted child molester.”  Isn’t it odd when I publicly refute the lies Price and his ‘Pac’ tell, with public record proof to prove it, someone hollers “Steve Watson is a convicted child molester.”  Isn’t it odd how that ‘Pac’ never refutes my claims with any proof, nor refute the public records you publish, but just holler “Steve Watson is a convicted child molester” as if this lie gives them some justification for committing crimes and lying about it.  This flyer is just a scandalous lie they use to associate Greg Magee with me to hurt his campaign.  Judge Magee has never been my attorney save defending my constitutional rights (and yours) from this ‘Pac’ mob recently in the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Scrutiny, as truth demands, will show Ms Taylor’s lies.  Scrutiny will show all of the ‘Pac’ lies.   Is anyone looking?  Our prosecutor, has, by public record proof, committed criminal activity.  Does anyone care?  If they get elected again, and come for me, will anyone act then? 

Stephen C. Watson

Pointblank, Texas  77364

News Release:

Subject: Nunn cleared of all charges

After near five years, six different prosecutors, four different investigating teams and 12 postponed trial motions by the prosecution, John Charles Nunn Sr. was cleared of all charges when the final case pending in Montgomery County was dismissed this past week by the 9^th District Court. The order was signed by the Honorable District Judge Fred Edwards after the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office made a motion to dismiss for lack of evidence to go to trial.

Add-on charges against Nunn filed by former San Jacinto County Criminal District Attorney Mark Price were dismissed last year after Special Prosecutor William Parham from Collage Station completed an independent investigation. Parham in turn made a motion “In the interest of justice and insufficient evidence” charges should be dismissed against Nunn. The motion was sent to Honorable District Judge Olen Underwood, the Presiding Judge of the, Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas that consist of 34 counties. Judge Underwood approved the motion and all the charges were dismissed.

Commenting on the dismissed charges this week, Nunn said, “At no time was there ever a concern on my part of these charges ever going to court. As I watched this unfold over the past four years, I felt as if I had been given a date drug while I had to sit and watch a group of political whack’s strip me of my job, expose my family and myself to pubic ridicule, and denied me the ability to make a living for my family. Then to make the “date” complete they used these hideous charges in an attempt to smear the stink on every friend of mine in public office in a failed attempt to defeat them at the polls. To this day there are still political websites inundated with insinuations related to these charges.

“I took all my bitterness and hurt and harnessed it into a positive action while I focused on working to unseat those unscrupulous individuals responsible who fueled and used this nightmare as a political tool. Bitterness and hurt makes strong emotional tools that drive a person 24/7. To gloat over the charges being dismissed is the furthest thing from my mind, this was a tragedy from start to finish and I hope it sends a strong message to all of us to sit up and take notice of who we are putting into a public office.”

“From this episode came two facts, the first and foremost is that prayer works, and second is that it takes incidents like that to appreciate your family and friends, for without either I would have never made it through this ordeal. You know who you are and I am forever grateful. I have heard that if you have one true friend in life you are lucky; I want to tell you I am one lucky person many times over.”