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(NEWTON) The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department announced last night that Frontier telephone customers were experiencing issues while if calling 911. Those with a Frontier landline who need to call 911, should instead use a cell phone to make the call or call the Sheriff’s Department directly at 783-8477.
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JASPER COUNTY â Two Wheatfield men were arrested and charged with aggravated battery and other offenses after they allegedly bloodied another man at a residence near Wheatfield on May 1.
Charged were Arthur R. Burchett, 41, and Kenneth M. Sorba, 52, after Jasper County Sheriffâs Department deputies responded to an incident at a residence three miles southeast of Wheatfield at around 10:34 p.m. on a Saturday evening.
According to police, a caller advised JCSD that a man had been beaten and bloodied during an altercation. When deputies arrived, they saw blood streaming down the victimâs face.
While waiting for an ambulance, the victim told deputies that when he pulled his car into his driveway he was immediately cornered by Burchett and three other subjects.
We reported on Monday that a teen drowned while fishing at the Dam B reservoir spillway Sunday afternoon. The volunteers of the Jasper County Emergency Corps as well as Officers from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife and the Jasper County Sheriff s Department were called to the location on the south end of the lake shortly before 7:00 p.m., when it was reported that the incident had occurred.
Game wardens recovered the body in an area between the flood gates and the Willis Hydroelectric Unit.
Complete details are not available, but it appeared that the victim of the drowning and others had walked to the location from the east side of the dam.
The Jasper County Sheriffâs Department is investigating the latest in a string of burglaries that have occurred in the Curtis Community.
Jasper businessman Derek Billingsley says his vehicle and his wifeâs vehicle were both burglarized early Tuesday morning. Billingsley said it happened while he was awake in the house, which is located on Highway 63 West about 2 miles outside of the Jasper city limits.
Billingsley said cash and other items were taken.
Jasper County Chief Deputy Scotty Duncan said at this point itâs not known if this crime is related to the others that have occurred recently in Curtis. The others included at least two house burglaries in which guns were taken.