Smith County Grand Jury indicts 44 people on 55 charges
Published 6:15 pm Thursday, March 15, 2018
- The Smith County Courthouse in downtown Tyler is shown. (Chelsea Purgahn/Tyler Morning Telegraph/File)
Two men accused of separate aggravated robberies in Tyler were among the group of people indicted in the March 1 session of the Smith County grand jury.
Tyler police officers arrested Skyler R. Driessen, 18, of Tyler shortly before Feb. 3 after he was accused of robbing someone at gunpoint at the Capital One Bank ATM at 4321 Copeland Road.
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Driessen ran from the scene using the running trails of Rose Rudman Park.
Officers located and identified Driessen about 15 minutes later when he was sitting at a picnic table by the playground south of Shiloh Road.
Driessen was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery. He was taken to the Smith County Jail where he is being held on a $50,000 bond.
In a separate case, a 22-year-old Tyler man was indicted on an aggravated robbery charge stemming from the Feb. 13 robbery of the Food Fast convenience store.
Police said Hunter Dean Milligan, of Tyler, entered the Food Fast convenience store at 805 W. Houston St. with a butcher knife and demanded money from the clerk.
Milligan took an undisclosed amount of money when the clerk opened the register.
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Police said Milligan fled the store on foot. A warrant was issued for his arrest. He was located and arrested the same day.
Milligan was charged with aggravated robbery and taken to Smith County Jail where he was being held on a $200,000 bond for that charge.
Of the 55 felony charges included in the March 1 session of grand jury, 44 were true-billed, meaning the grand jury found sufficient evidence the defendant should be tried for the crime.
The charges in the March 1 set of indictments include 23 state-jail felonies, 15 third-degree felonies, 12 second-degree felonies and five first-degree felonies.
Others indicted March 1 include:
Joel Arroyo, 38, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
Mallory M. Banta, 31, of Bullard, theft
Matthew P. Berryhill-Day, 19, of Ben Wheeler, two counts of indecency with a child through sexual contact
Robert S. Bowman, 53, of Tyler, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance
Fletta B. Brager, 62, of Overton, credit card or debit card abuse of the elderly
Christopher W. Burks, 21, of Troup, possession of a control substance
Brittany M. Cary, 33, of Tyler, robbery
Ivan Carlos Cuarenta, 27, of Tyler, evading arrest
Brandon D. Davis, 33, of Lindale, theft
Michael D. Denson, 23, of Bullard, possession of a controlled substance
Quintet L. Dewberry, 33, of Overton, credit card and debit card abuse
Kenneth R. Dorsey, 39, of Tyler, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing at least 1 gram but less than 4 grams, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram, and evading arrest
Billy Jack Driggers, 42, of Whitehouse, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing more than 1 gram but less than 4 grams
Anthony C. Herbert, 27, of New Orleans, Louisiana, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon
Clyde L. Holland, 26, of Tyler, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
Ashton R. Hughes, 20, of Flint, forgery of a financial instrument
Tevin J. Jenkins, 26, of Tyler, assault of a public servant
Lee M. Johnson, 45, of Flint, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram
Tyler S. Kennedy, 27, of Tyler, endangering a child
James D. Kirby, 34, of Troup, two counts of assault and family violence
Brandon S. Little, 33, of Lindale, possession of a controlled substance
Joshua G. Martin, 37, of Troup, assault and family violence
Jordan D. Mayberry, 30, of Chandler, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing more than 4 grams but less than 200 grams
Bryan S. Mayfield Jr., 27, of Tyler, evading arrest
Jacob A. McDouhal, 26, of Tyler, burglary of a building
Chagois Moore, 27, of Tyler, burglary of a habitation
Qweana Oxford, 21, of Tyler, tampering with a governmental record
Jarrod K. Perry, 43, of Tyler, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon
Brittnie Pike, 18, of Whitehouse, two counts of burglary of a habitation
Lauren T. Richardson, 26, of Tyler, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram
Joanna L. Ritter, 33, of Carthage, possession of a controlled substance
Shichonda Ross, 46, of Tyler, assaulting EMS personnel
Millard Sanders, 47, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing more than 4 grams but less than 200 grams
Marcellus Seastrunk, 29, of Tyler, assault and family violence
Ladunta Thompson, 22, of Tyler, robbery and two counts of theft
Austyn Uecker, 29, of Chandler, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon
James Warren, 18, of Tyler, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
Randell Watson Jr., 38, of Tyler, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 2 weighing more than 1 gram but less than 4
Charles Joe Williams II, 44, of Tyler, two chargers of tampering with governmental records
Natasha Woods, 31, of Tyler, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
Casey Wright, 27, of Chandler, possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing more than 1 gram but less than 4
Sheikaila Wright, 22, of Tyler, endangering a child