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GUNFIGHT!
The good guys (right) win again, but it takes a gunfight – a really loud gunfight judging from the bevy of covered ears – to take out the bad guys. The 31st Wild West Festival brought hundreds of folks to town where they jammed the Square. SEE STORY, PHOTOS ON 2A! Photo by Natalie Gentry
Anonymous tip leads to multiple drug arrests Five people were arrested Sept. 14 at a home just outside Springtown after a tip led law enforcement there to investigate. Undercover officers with the Weatherford-Parker County Special Crimes Unit approached a residence in the 800 block of Lynch Bend Road to acquire additional information about the investigation stemming from an anonymous Crime Stoppers Tip. SCU members spoke with a woman identified as Gayla Eugenia Hammons, 54, of Springtown, who was unfamiliar with the investigators, but struck up an open conversation about narcotics that resulted in the sale of methamphetamine to the officers. Two adults, identified as Samantha Louise Bozeman, 24, of Azle, and Daniel Wayne Pack, 26, of Decatur, along with a juvenile male arrived at the residence a short time later. During the investigation, SCU members discovered those suspects had made marijuana available to the minor. Bozeman and Pack implicated themselves to investigators, saying they gave money to the minor to purchase marijuana for them from Jerry Wayne Hammons, 21, of Springtown, who was inside the residence. Another woman, identified as Cheyanne McConnell, 18, of Springtown, was also discovered inside the home.
The investigation continued as SCU members spoke with McConnell and Jerry Hammons, finding enough evidence to obtain and execute a search warrant for the residence. As a result of the search warrant, SCU investigators seized drug paraphernalia discovered throughout McConnell’s and Jerry Hammons’ bedroom. SCU investigators also seized plastic baggies and digital scales, commonly used in the sale and distribution of narcotics, along with 6.5 grams of Alprazolam (Xanax), 2.2 grams of cocaine, 3.45 ounces of marijuana and 5.5 grams of MDMA (ecstasy), pipes and bongs found inside the residence. SCU investigators additionally seized 260 grams of suspected liquid codeine. Charges are pending laboratory results. Everyone was arrested. Jerry Hammons was charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, delivery of marijuana to a minor, manufacturing delivery of a controlled substance (possession of cocaine with intent to deliver), manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance (possession of MDMA with intent to deliver), possession of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance (Alprazolam). Gayla Hammons was charged with
Jerry Wayne Hammons
Gayla Eugenia Hammons
manufacturing/delivery of a controlled substance. McConnell was charged with manufacturing/delivery of a controlled substance (possession of cocaine with intent to deliver), manufacturing/delivery of a controlled substance (possession of MDMA with intent to deliver), possession of marijuana, and possession of a controlled substance (Alprazolam). Bozeman and Pack were each charged with engaging in organized criminal activity (delivery of marijuana to a minor). The juvenile was released to the custody of his parents. Charges are being sought against him. Samantha Louise Bozeman
Daniel Wayne Pack
Cheyanne McConnell
Buy Homecoming tickets online now BY MARK K. CAMPBELL A few years ago, football fans could buy tickets in advance. That stopped recently and some people have asked it to return. So, Carl Hornback, stadium facilities director, is gearing up to bring back advance purchases for varsity games – and it starts this Friday for the Homecoming game against Vernon. He said, “Ticket sales will be open from Monday at 8 a.m. until Friday at noon.” After a patron buys tickets online, a receipt is produced. Purchasers then bring that receipt to the main home gate on the west side of the stadium. “I will run a report and leave it at the game,” Hornback said. “All they have to do is walk up to the gate, tell the gate keep who they are, and that they bought their tickets online.” The person at the gate will check the report and cross them off. “They may be asked to show an ID, so Porcupines current and former followed the Sept. 21 Homecoming Parade that meandered to the old they should be prepared for that,” Hornfootball stadium where the traditional Lighting of the Letters brought cheers. Photo by Mark K. Campbell back said.
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Tickets will be listed under the name of the credit card holder that made the purchase. “So, if it’s a different name claiming the tickets, they will need to know the name on the credit card that was used for the purchase,” Hornback said. With that system, losing or forgetting the receipt will not be a problem, he noted. Online sales will hopefully relieve entry bottlenecks, Hornback said. Buy online at www.porcupinestadium.com under “Buy tickets.” Other premium tickets remain available that will not be available online. Reserved seats – with chair backs in the middle of the home stands – can be bought at the main and northwest booths for $7. That’s what season ticket holders pay. There is a limited number of them, Hornback said, “about 20.” They are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Credit and debit cards are accepted at those two booths.
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