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Saturday June 13, 2026
HENDERSON COUNTY — A game room in the Malakoff area was closed down by a team of investigators Thursday and two people were arrested. A search warrant was served after law enforcement suspected illegal activity at the Hippy Hut Game Room on State Highway 31, in Malakoff. The attendant in charge of the game room, Cheryl Norman, 48, and the manager, Regina Jones, 53 were arrested. They both face felony and misdemeanor charges for a variety of crimes – engaging in organized criminal activity, promotion of gambling, keeping a gambling place, possession of gambling devices and possession of gambling paraphernalia. Read the rest of this entry »
CROZET, Va. (AP) — Representative Louie Gohmert is “ok” after a train he was on which was carrying GOP lawmakers to a retreat in West Virginia collided with a garbage truck around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday. One person was killed in the collision and at least two other people in the truck were reported seriously hurt. Rep. Gohmert spoke with KETK after the accident. “We were rolling down the track and we have a train that almost all of the Republicans in the house and numerous Republican senators were on going to the annual retreat,” Gohmert said. “The way it looks, the guard arm is down, so the garbage truck must have been weaving through the warning devices and they nearly got through. It appears we caught the tail end of the garbage truck.” Read the rest of this entry »
SMITH COUNTY — Smith County Fire Marshal Connie McCoy-Wasson has urged residents to refrain from burning today because of high winds. Smith County is not under a burn ban, but people are asked to use extreme caution and to not burn anything during high wind conditions.
ANGELINA COUNTY — A 35-year-old man wanted on outstanding warrants has been arrested following a high speed chase. It happened around 7:30 Tuesday night in Lufkin. An officer was attempting to conduct a traffic stop on Abel Lopez when the pursuit started. Lopez headed northbound on Loop 287 and was spiked by Constable Tom Selman. He continued on, eventually bailing out of the vehicle and was arrested a short time later. Officers said he threw items from the vehicle during the pursuit that they are attempting to retrieve. A woman in Lopez’s vehicle at the time of the pursuit was released. You can go to https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcszlobxqy2cv7j/Abel%20Lopez%20Pursuit.mp4?dl=0 to see a police video of the chase.
LONGVIEW — An East Texas felon has been indicted for aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. According to KETK, a grand jury indicted Michael Lloyd-Shane Deborde, 37, of Longview, on Thursday. On Sunday, October 1, 2017, Longview police responded to the Sunbelt Mobile Home Park in the 1200 block of South Texas 31 on reports of an armed man. Officers spoke to a man who said he had been arguing with Deborde when he pulled a gun from his pants and pointed it at the man. Deborde admitted to having a gun but told officers he did not point it at the man. Deborde was booked into the Gregg County Jail on $120,000 bond. He was released on October 4.
GREGG COUNTY — A Longview woman has been indicted after officials say she bit a police officer while being arrested. According to KETK, a Gregg County grand jury indicted Jasmine Mychelle Fluellen, 20, on Thursday, January 25, for assault against an officer. Officers responded to a call for service at 428 South Fredonia Street on Saturday, December 2, 2017, where they located Fluellen inside a vacant apartment. According to the probable cause affidavit, Fluellen tried walking away from officers and ignored their commands. When police made contact, Fluellen tried to punch an officer and later bit an officer on the leg as she was being handcuffed. Fluellen was arrested and booked into the Gregg County Jail, where she remains on $41,000 bond.
SMITH COUNTY — Emergency officials are at the scene of a rollover accident in Tyler. It happened just after 8:00 at the intersection of Rhones Quarter Road and Grande Blvd. No word on injuries or the cause of the wreck. Drivers are urged to use an alternate route.
NACOGDOCHES — A sophomore at Stephen F. Austin State University has been found dead in her campus residence hall Friday. According to KETK, Erin Valenta, 20, was a music major and a resident of SFA’s Lumberjack Village. She graduated from Allen High School in 2016. A residence hall staff member was called to perform a welfare check, which had been requested by a friend. There were no signs of foul play, and an autopsy has been requested. Counseling is being made available to SFA students, faculty and staff members through SFA Counseling Services on the third floor of the Rusk Building.
EAST TEXAS — A Lufkin teenager turned himself into authorities after Tyler Police identify him in a gas station robbery. Ty Levi Golightly, 19, is in the Cherokee County Jail on a probation violation warrant. A Tyler Police Detective interviewed Golightly at the Cherokee County Jail where he confessed to the Conoco robbery in Tyler Monday, a gas station robbery in Jacksonville and a gas station robbery in Lufkin. A warrant for aggravated robbery was obtained on Golightly for the Conoco robbery in Tyler. Golightly remains jailed on the probation violation with a $1,000 bond and the aggravated robbery warrant with a $750,000 bond. Cases are pending in Jacksonville and Lufkin.
GREGG COUNTY — The state’s highest appeals court reinstated a 99-year sentence Thursday for a Kilgore man convicted of murdering a Hallsville teenager. According to the Longview News-Journal, Coby Ray Hudgins, 26, was given the sentence in 2015 after a jury convicted him of fatally shooting Kayla Williams, 17, in October 2013. Hudgins’ appeal was based on a complaint that his attorney had not provided an adequate defense. Hudgins is convicted of killing Williams at his home in Kilgore, pointing a gun at her forehead and shooting from just inches away. Williams and others had been drinking at his home. Hudgins also fired at two witnesses as they fled the scene.
SMITH COUNTY — A Tyler woman is behind bars after she allegedly hit another woman over the head with a candlestick. According to KETK, Natasha Woods, 31, was arrested at a home on Academy Avenue just before 6:30 Wednesday evening. She’s accused of attacking a 33-year-old woman, hitting her in the head with a candlestick. Woods also assaulted a 13 year old by stepping on the child’s foot. The victims told police she was also holding a knife in her hand during the incident. The victims believe Woods had been taking PCP, causing her aggression toward them. Both victims were treated on scene by EMS. Woods has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, injury to a child and resisting arrest. She is being held in the Smith County Jail on bonds totaling $92,500.
HENDERSON COUNTY — East Texas officials have arrested the suspect wanted in a bloody attack. Henderson County Deputies were responding to a reported assault at a home south of Chandler Tuesday night when they found two victims bloody and beaten. Marc Anthony Allison, Jr., 29, was arrested this morning in Montgomery County, near Houston. Allison reportedly attacked the pair with a galvanized steel pipe. A steel ratchet wrench was also found at the scene. The girlfriend was treated and released. The brother remains in the hospital.
TYLER — Tyler Police search for two aggravated robbery suspects. Officers said a man was waiting for an Uber ride outside of Schlotzskys on Loop 323 around 10:00 last night when he was approached by two Hispanic males wearing gray hoodies. The victim said the men demanded his property then beat him with a metal pipe until he lost consciousness. The victim sustained injuries to his face and head that required immediate medical attention but did not appear life threatening. The suspects are still on the loose.
GREGG COUNTY — Authorities have identified the driver and passenger involved in a chase where DPS troopers collided with a suspect vehicle. According to KETK, Aaron Wade Slagle, 37, of Tyler, was driving the vehicle and Kalie Erin Kinlaw, 35, of Kilgore, was a passenger. It started around 5:00 Tuesday evening when a DPS trooper tried to stop a car for a traffic violation near Fritz Swanson Road and Goforth Road in Gregg County. When the driver did not stop, the trooper followed the vehicle through several turns before the driver and two DPS patrol cars collided almost 20 minutes later near FM 1252 and CR 3104. The driver and passenger of the vehicle had outstanding warrants and were taken to a Longview medical center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Slagle was wanted out of Marion and Dallas Counties. Kinlaw was wanted in Gregg County. Both suspects were booked into the Gregg County Jail on their outstanding warrants as well as a felony charge of evading by Slagle. No troopers were injured in the crash.
EAST TEXAS — A National Weather Service survey team said Tuesday that damage caused in severe weather Sunday night in Winnsboro was from strong winds and not a tornado. According to KETK, multiple buildings received significant damage, and four families were displaced. No injuries or fatalities were reported. The storm had wind gusts up to 75 mph according to the official survey release.