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The
Lewisville Texan Journal
Vol. 4, No. 28
L ife and L iber ty in the L one Star State
L ewisvilleTexan.com
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
This edition of The Lewisville Texan Journal is a printed recap of our online stories from the past week. For timely updates on Lewisville happenings, follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/LewisvilleTexanJournal or Twitter at twitter.com/LewisvilleTexan.
I nvader s sought DFW-based PAC funded mar ij uana in par tisan flier s in June r unoff weekend bur glar y, one slain by resident
I vor y Tatum I I I , who sur vived forcing entr y into the Oaks of L ewisville apar tment with only a cut on his eye. (I mage cour tesy L ewisville PD)
July 11 2018 By L EOPOL D K NOPP and JAM ES NORM AN
The suspects intended to take back an unspecified amount of marijuana in the burglary last week that ended with one suspect dead and the other in custody, according to an affidavit acquired by the Lewisville Texan Journal. According to the affidavit, Ivory Dewayne Tatum III and his friend, Edgar Espino had gone to an apartment at the Oaks of Lewisville at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday July 8 to confront the occupants about an unspecified amount of marijuana the suspects believed had belonged to Espino. Lewisville police Capt. Jesse Hunter had previously said there was no evidence to suggest that
Espino and Tatum had a previous relationship with the occupants. Upon arriving, Espino knocked on the door while Tatum stood behind him. When the door was opened, Espino, who was armed with a handgun, forced his way into the apartment and was shot immediately by one of the occupants with a shotgun. Tatum, surprised to see his friend had been shot, entered the apartment to help Espino and was hit in the head and held at gunpoint until police arrived. According to radio traffic, Espino was dead when they arrived at the scene. Tatum was transported to the Medical Center Lewisville hospital for treatment with a wound on his face. A detective arrived at the hospital around 2 a.m. and began questioning Tatum, who initially gave a fictitious account as to why they had gone to the apartment. The affidavit states he eventually admitted his intent during the course of the interview. Tatum was handcuffed a little before 5 a.m. and was
The front and back of the flier s sent out by the Nor th Texas PAC for Tr ust, Honesty and I ntegr ity. (Flier from Nor th Texas PAC for Tr ust, Honesty and I ntegr ity)
July 11, 2018 By L EOPOL D K NOPP Knopp@LewisvilleTexan.com
A Carrollton City Council member may be involved with the partisan fliers that were sent out
concerning Neil Ferguson and Ronni Cade in the late stages of their runoff election last month. The morning of June 15, Lewisville voters found fliers in their mailboxes related to
the runoff election between Ferguson and Cade for the Place 2 City Council seat. The fliers painted a highly partisan picture of the two candidates, singling Continued on P3
High-voltage tower sky background (photo cour tesy of Deposit Photos)
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L ewisville's M usic City more City negotiates with electr ic companies as than j ust a shopping mall July 10, 2018 By L EOPOL D K NOPP
Some of the more noticeable things about Music City Mall ? Lewisville ? at some entrances, the very first thing you notice ? are the
corvettes parked on the ground floor of the mall. They?re everywhere. When John Bushman and his ownership group, Investment Corporation of America, purchased Vista Ridge Mall at auction late
M all owner ship tr ies to keep its stages filled with shows on weekends. (Photo by L eopold K nopp)
last year, the ultimate goal was to fill it with people. In order to do that, they?ve filled it with stages, play areas and new shops, many of which are locally owned. New foot traffic indicates that they do, in fact, fill the mall with people on many nights and weekends. Assistant general manager and sales director Natalie Boyer said that traffic has increased, but they don?t exactly know by how much. Boyer said mall traffic is tracked with automated devices that count the number of cars coming into the seven main entrances ? allowing for the fact that some of these vehicles are headed to nearby restaurants as well ? but when the mall was purchased, they discovered these trackers had Continued on P4
r ate increases loom July 11, 2018 By JAM ES NORM AN Norman@LewisvilleTexan.com
Both electric transmission and distribution utilities that serve Lewisville have requested to increase customer rates in the past couple months, with Lewisville City Council rejecting an application by Oncor Electric and suspending an increase by Texas-New Mexico Power. TNMP, who serves a majority of Lewisville, submitted a filing in late May, wanting to increase system-wide transmission and distribution rates by $33.3 million, according to background material provided to the council. At their June 18 meeting, council suspended the increase and hired Lloyd
Gosselink and consultants to evaluate it.The suspension lasts for 90 days after the set date for the increase, which was set to be July 5. Oncor Electric submitted an application to the city in early April, which was rejected by council at their May 7 meeting. According to background material provided to the council on that item, Oncor was attempting to increase their distribution revenues of a little more than $19 million, but the city found the increase unreasonable. The increase would impact the DFW Metroplex. Both the resolution to reject Oncor?s increase and the one to suspend TNMP?s price increase also call for Continued on P5