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1 killed in wreck on Texas Highway 64E

At least one person is dead after a two-vehicle wreck Tuesday afternoon on Texas Highway 64 East in front of Chapel Hill ISD’s Wise Elementary School.

The Texas Department of Public Safety worked the wreck. More information will be released once it is available and confirmed, according to an email from the agency.

—Staff reports

Accident kills 1 north of Longview

One person is dead after a one-vehicle wreck Tuesday afternoon north of Longview.

Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Sgt. Jean Dark said troopers are investigating the wreck on U.S. 259 north of Farm-to-Market Road 1650.

Dark said preliminary information showed two people were ejected from the vehicle. One of those people has died.

She said more information would be released as it is available.

—Longview News-Journal

McKinney man faces gambling charges

A McKinney man was arrested on charges of illegal gambling in Smith County.

Amerier Siddique, 33, was taken to the Smith County Jail and charged with keeping a gambling place, gambling promotion and possession of gambling devices, equipment and paraphernalia, according to the inmate bookings report.

Siddique posted a $150,000 bond and was released on Saturday, according to jail records.

The sheriff’s office said the gambling activities took place in the 11000 block of Texas Highway 64 East.

The incident is still under investigation and no other information could be released, according to the sheriff’s office.

—LouAnna Campbell

Possible bomb threat in downtown Tyler

The Tyler police and fire departments responded to a possible bomb threat Tuesday in downtown Tyler.

As of 4 p.m., firetrucks and police vehicles were lined up along Ferguson Street, and police cars were lined up along Broadway Avenue, near the KLTV-Channel 7 building. The station’s employees were outside the building, in the rain.

Fire Chief David Coble could not confirm one way or another if the department was responding to a threat.

“Normally on bomb threats we keep a secret until we can verify one way or another, and we are in the process,” Coble said.

—Staff reports

3 drug raids result in 7 arrests

Seven people were arrested in three separate drug raids during the Labor Day weekend holiday in Henderson County, according to a news release from Sheriff Botie Hillhouse.

The sheriff’s office said its narcotics team raided three homes in Gun Barrel City.

Jennifer Denise Noe, 41, was arrested at a residence on Loving Lane. The residence previously was raided in July.

Noe was charged with manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing more than 4 grams but less than 200 grams.

As of Tuesday, Noe remained in the Henderson County Jail on a $12,500 bond.

In a separate raid, four suspects were arrested on Red Robin in the Wood Wilkes Subdivision.

Roberta Hunt, 57, was charged with possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram.

She also was wanted on outstanding warrants out of Gun Barrel City.

As of Tuesday she was being held in the Henderson County Jail on a $8,500 bond.

Robert Lee Hicks III, 37, was charged with possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram.

Kimberly Michelle Revels, 47, and a 63-year-old man were wanted on active warrants.

The man was arrested on outstanding warrants out of Gun Barrel City.

Revels was wanted on a Henderson County warrant and a warrant out of Kaufman County for drug possession.

Revels also was charged with possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram. She remained in the Henderson County Jail on bonds totaling $93,500.

At another raid, two people were arrested on Spring Valley in the Tamarack Subdivision.

Jessica Mosley Gonzales, 38, was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram.

Thomas Paul Harrington, 32, of Payne Springs, was caught by deputies in a vehicle in the driveway of the residence when he tried to flee the scene with what investigators believed to be methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, according to the news release.

Harrington was charged with possession of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 weighing less than 1 gram.

As of Tuesday, Gonzales and Harrington remained in the Henderson County Jail on an $8,500 bond.

It is the policy of the Tyler Morning Telegraph not to publish names of people arrested on misdemeanor charges.

—LouAnna Campbell

Tub overflow leads to drug, bomb arrests

Six units at Silver Creek Apartments in Lufkin were evacuated early Tuesday after Lufkin police officers found materials used to make bombs.

Police said that as of 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were on their way to the scene from Tyler and a Garland Police Department bomb squad was already there.

Two men, Matt Hopper, 37, and Daniel Scott Stanley, both of Lufkin, were arrested.

Officers initially responded about 5:30 p.m. Monday to Hopper’s apartment for a welfare check involving leaking water, which was dripping from Hopper’s apartment into the unit below.

Hopper was washing clothes in the tub and had left the water running.

Officials noticed what they believed to be methamphetamine components and called the Special Services Division, which led to a search warrant and the ATF being called.

Police said Hopper was in possession of methamphetamine, marijuana and numerous prescription drugs in addition to the materials consistent with bomb making.

—KYTX CBS 19