Your Bowie County Sheriff's Office whopper of a Wednesday this past week kept busy the rest of the week as well, with 2 death investigations, possession of Child Porn, several theft investigations and more. Your weekly Bowie County Sheriffs Report is ready, as prepared by Chief Deputy Robby McCarver. This report is for the Week Of 5/2 - 5/8, 2022.
Longtime Capistrano Beach resident and Saddleback College Professor Emeritus, James D. Yates, passed away from lung cancer at age 80. Jim would want it known that he never smoked, but life is full of vagaries. Jim was born in Boston, Mass. On Oct. 26, 1940 to James Allen Yates and Victoria Pulitano Yates. His father and uncle Orin perished on March 7, 1942 when the USS Sims was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Two months later, Jim's mother gave birth to Jim's brother, Orin Guy Yates. Eleven months later Jim's mother took Jim and Orin to his paternal grandparents' farm just outside Rinard, Illinois. Jim was adopted by his grandparents Luther Guy and Mamie Yates and raised on their farm with a bevy of colorful aunts, uncles and cousins whose exploits Jim has recounted to friends far and wide. Jim attended Flora Township High School and graduated in the class of 1958. He attended Eastern Illinois University where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Education and l