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TCSO makes arrest of felon with firearm

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By Chris Edwards
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TOWN BLUFF – The Tyler County Sheriff’s Office made a recent arrest in the Barlow Lake Estates community of a convicted felon from Hardin County who was in possession of a firearm.

According to Tyler County Sheriff Bryan Weatherford, on Wednesday, Feb. 14, deputies were patrolling the area at night, along County Road 4410, when a vehicle traveling in front of the deputies came to an abrupt stop. The driver, whom they later identified as James Travis Ard, a 43-year-old Silsbee man, exited the truck and, according to Weatherford, removed what appeared to be a rifle, and throw it in the ditch.

The deputies spoke to Ard, and recovered a .22 Savage rifle, which he admitted to removing from the vehicle. He also told the deputies that he “panicked and threw the gun because he knew he was not allowed to possess a firearm,” according to Weatherford.

A check revealed that Ard was, indeed, a convicted felon, and he was taken into custody. He remains in Tyler County Jail, charged with felony possession of a firearm by a felon and felony tampering with physical evidence.

Pct. 3 Justice of the Peace Mike Hughes set Ard’s bond at $20,000.

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Livingston residents arrested on warrants

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By Chris Edwards
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WOODVILLE – Deputies with the Tyler County Sheriff’s Office made a pair of arrests last week in Woodville of two individuals with felony warrants, according to Tyler County Sheriff Bryan Weatherford.

The deputies were made aware of two individuals from Livingston, whom they identified as Ramon Joseph Lalumandier and Christine Marie Ferris, who had active felony warrants for their arrests and were involved in some sort of disturbance at a residence.

Weatherford said that once deputies were on the scene of the residence, which was located on US 190 east, right outside of the Woodville city limits, they were able to find both Lalumandier, 28 and Ferris, 33, who were involved in the reported disturbance.

Both suspects were taken into custody on the warrants, which were out of Polk County, and booked into the Tyler County Jail. Lalumandier was charged with felony manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance (greater than four grams but less than 200 grams) and evading arrest.

District Judge Travis Kitchens has previously set a no bond on Lalumandier.

Ferris was charged with possession of marijuana; evading arrest; resisting arrest and manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance (greater than four grams but less than 200 grams). Ferris had bonds set in Polk County at $53,000 by Kitchens.

Both suspects were transferred to the Polk County Jail, where they remain in custody.

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Pair arrested on drug charges

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By Chris Edwards
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FRED – Tyler County Sheriff Bryan Weatherford reported that a recent arrest in Fred uncovered drugs, including LSD.

Weatherford said that deputies with the Tyler County Sheriff’s Office were patrolling in the Fred area on the night of Saturday, Feb. 17, and stopped a Ford truck along FM 92 for a traffic violation. The driver, Casey Rachelle Read, a 45-year-old woman from Silsbee, consented to having the truck searched. A passenger, Kevin Anthony Eason, 41, of Fred, was also present.

During the search, the deputies uncovered a baggie containing marijuana. Both the driver and passenger were taken into custody and transported to the Tyler County Jail on a possession of marijuana charge, for greater than two ounces.

Before entering the jail, Read admitted to having three LSD tabs on her person, hidden in her bra. Weatherford said that a female jailer was able to recover a small bag from Read containing the hallucinogenic drug, which got her a felony possession of a controlled substance charge.

Pct. 2 Justice of the Peace Ken Jobe set Eason’s bond at $1,200 and Read’s at $7,500. Both have since bonded out of jail.

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Paxton sues porn distributor for violating age verification laws

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AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Aylo Global Entertainment, a major pornography distribution company, for violating HB 1181, a Texas law that requires reasonable age verification measures to protect minors from being exposed to obscene materials.

Aylo Global runs several of the largest pornography websites that host obscene materials, including Pornhub. Instead of abiding by Texas law requiring purveyors of obscene sexual material to institute age verification systems, the company immediately presents minors who access their websites with pornographic content. Attorney General Paxton is seeking an injunction against Aylo Global to require appropriate age verification safeguards and potentially millions of dollars in civil penalties for failing to abide by the law.

In November 2023, Paxton won a major victory at the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing Texas to enforce the law. Companies violating the age verification requirements will be subject to fines of up to $10,000 per day, an additional $10,000 per day if the corporation illegally retains identifying information, and $250,000 if a child is exposed to pornographic content due to not properly verifying a user’s age.

“Texas has a right to protect its children from the detrimental effects of pornographic content,” said Paxton. “I look forward to holding any company accountable that violates our age verification laws intended to prevent minors from being exposed to harmful, obscene material on the internet.”

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AT&T reports nationwide outages

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By Chris Edwards

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Nationwide, last Thursday, a mass outage of cellular phone service was reported. Customers of AT&T, as well as Verizon, T-Mobile and Cricket Wireless were affected, but according to reports, AT&T customers were the most widely affected.

According to a statement from AT&T, the widespread outage was caused by “the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network.”

On Thursday, the provider had more than 58,000 outages beginning around 11 a.m. and peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. According to reports, the outages began that day at 2:30 a.m. AT&T is the country’s largest telecommunications provider, with more than 240 million subscribers.

The biggest affected areas, according to a statement, were Dallas-Fort Worth; Austin; Houston; San Antonio; Miami; Atlanta; Chicago and Indianapolis.

Tyler County customers began reporting their service being restored at around noon. Following the outage, AT&T customers received text messages apologizing for the outage with a hyperlink to apply a $5 credit to an account.

By 3:10 p.m. on Thursday, AT&T reported that the widespread outages had been solved.

“We have restored wireless service to all our affected customers,” the company stated on its website. “Keeping our customers connected remains our top priority, and we are taking steps to ensure our customers do not experience this again in the future,” the statement continued.

The company emphasized that the outage was not the result of a cyber attack, and added that the $5 credit is the average cost of a full day of service. It will typically be applied within two bill cycles, but does not apply to AT&T Business, or prepaid services through the provider, or Cricket Mobile.

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