DPS commemorates fallen trooper Chad Walker with fundraiser
DPS commemorates fallen trooper Chad Walker with fundraiser
and last updated 2021-06-27 23:15:19-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Members of DPS held a benefit Sunday at Brewster Street Ice House in downtown Corpus Christi for the family of Chad Walker, the fallen DPS trooper who also worked in Corpus Christi.
âHe loved just talking and telling stories. He was such a personable guy, easy to talk with, one of the guys who would give the shirt off his back,â DPS Sergeant Nathan Brandley said.
Brandley was the one who organized the fundraiser and said the cause is one that hits home because so many people rallied together for him when he lost his first wife.
Local DPS troopers host fundraiser for family of Chad Walker
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and last updated 2021-05-08 23:46:52-04
A special fundraiser was held in Robstown for fallen DPS Trooper Chad Walker
A charity skeet shoot and BBQ was organized by some local troopers who knew Chad Walker. The trooper was killed in March while responding to a traffic stop near Waco.
His first duty station in 2015 was the Corpus Christi area. Organizers say they had to do something to help support Walker s wife and four children. There was a lot of benefits going on around the state, and we felt that it was important for us, since he was here in Corpus Christi, for us to do something in return for his family, said retired DPS trooper Alex Benavides.
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Two DPS troopers arrested, charged with multiple crimes
and last updated 2021-02-23 23:28:14-05
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Nueces County Sheriff s deputies arrested two local Texas Department of Public Safety troopers Tuesday.
Both officers, 43-year-old Marco Everett and 31-year-old Holly Thomas, were booked into the Nueces County Jail. Both turned themselves in, according to official records.
They have since been released on $5,000 bond each.
Everett is charged with multiple counts of tampering with government records and official oppression and one count of unlawful restraint.
The indictment against Everett states he made fraudulent entries on two separate dates in an official case report during an on-duty altercation, and mistreated two people while acting as a DPS trooper. It also states Everett unlawfully arrested one person, and forcefully restrained another.