Radio Station Owner Back Behind Bars
Posted/updated on: April 19, 2011 at 11:28 am
LUFKIN — A Lufkin radio station owner is back in jail. Stephen Walter Yates is charged with violating his probation on a felony driving while intoxicated conviction. According to KETK, the 52-year-old Yates was convicted of his third DWI in 2007 in Polk County and sentenced to 10 years’ probation. The Polk County sheriff’s office issued the warrant last Tuesday. According to jail records, Lufkin police arrested Yates last Thursday. Yates owns Yates Broadcasting, which transmits five stations over the air from its downtown Lufkin location.