Hays Free Press • December 28, 2016
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Woman charged with manslaughter in Kyle motorcycle death
A woman was arrested and charged with manslaughter in May after authorities allege reckless driving resulted in a motorcyclist’s death on Interstate 35 in August 2015. Kelly Lynn Watson, 38, was arrested and charged with manslaughter, which is a second degree felony. According to a Kyle Police investigation, multiple witnesses allege Watson was driving erratically before she struck motorcyclist James Keith Grear, of Tennesse, in a fatal accident.
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Suspect in Hays City Store robbery sentenced
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In May, a Hays County Jury sentenced Clifton Bryan Hennington, 37, of Austin, to life in prison for his role in the 2013 aggravated robbery of the Hays City Store. According to a Hays CounHENNINGTON ty press release, the jury learned during the trial’s punishment phase that Hennington, along with Nathaniel Jones, 31, had committed 27 robberies and attempted 7 others from July 2013 to January 2014. The spree spread across 20 Texas counties including Hays, Caldwell, Bexar and Comal counties.
Kyle woman arrested for sex trafficking of local teen
Pre-trial motions are expected to begin in January for a case involving a Kyle woman accused of trafficking a 16-yearold Kyle girl for sex in 2015. Nancy Cisneros, 43, of Kyle, was indicted on two counts of trafficking a child for sexual purposes and three counts of compelling prostitution, which CISNEROS are all first-degree felonies. According to a probable cause affidavit, Cisneros and Bernell Jackson Quillens, 35, of Houston, allegedly trafficked the teen using backpage.com, which was the center of controversy after the website’s CEO was arrested on pimping charges.
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Trial date set in DWI death case
A May 2017 trial date has been set for the case involving Buda realtor Jason Tarr, who faces first-degree murder and second-degree intoxication manslaughter charges. Tarr TARR was arrested in September 2015 after he was accused of driving drunk and crashing his truck head-on into a vehicle driven by Nancy Steling-Dalton, who was killed in the accident.
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Murders take place days of each other in Kyle Two people were arrested and charged with murder after seperate shooting incidents that happened within a week of each other. James Craig Keen, 49, of Kyle, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on March 26 in connection with the death of Erin Wright, 39, of Kyle, who was found shot to death in the front yard of a home in the Spring Branch neighborhood. According to Hays County court records, pre-trial motions are expected to continue in the Keen case in January. On April 2, Kyle Police arrested and charged a Kyle teen with first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting death of Natanaell Barales in the Post Oak subdivision. In August, Jamez Gabriel Sanchez, 17, of Kyle, was booked into the Hays County Jail for first-degree murder on his 17th birthday. Sanchez’s case is expected to continue in January, according to Hays SANCHEZ KEEN County court records.
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