NEWS
Unpaid tickets can bring jail during the Great Texas Warrant Roundup
By BARBARA GREEN
If you have an outstanding warrant or delinquent traffic ticket, you may want to get it taken care of as quickly as possible so you don’t get caught up in the 2017 Great Texas Warrant Roundup beginning this week.
This year some 300 local law enforcement agencies statewide, including all the justice of the peace courts and city courts in Montague County, will join forces for the roundup. Those who have active arrest warrants on old, unpaid citations were notified by mail and telephone through Feb. 25.
Those with warrants were advised to contact the courts and encouraged to pay off outstanding fines. These violations stem from an outstanding warrants, delinquent traffic tickets, misdemeanor Class C citations or parking tickets.
This is the 11th year for the warrant roundup in Texas and the largest one conducted in the country.
All city courts and justice of the peace courts in Montague County are all participating.
Read the full story in the mid-week News.
The jury was seated on Monday and the opening day of testimony Tuesday only lasted four hours, before the panel went into deliberations about 2 p.m.
Two hours later the jury returned a guilty verdict on both charges. Wednesday morning the jury was set to begin discussion on Hall’s punishment at 8:30 a.m. with both sides offering evidence and testimony. Hall faces up to 10 years in prison.
The trial was moved to Denton County on a change of venue requested by Hall in March. After 16th District Judge Sherry Shipman read the verdict, it was reported Hall hung her head in disappointment and was later seen crying and emotional as she left the courtroom.
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The meeting opens with a proclamation for Emergency Medical Services Week.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will report on recent rainfall problems, Smythe Street sidewalk project and the substation work.
There is only one item of new business an ordinance related to speed limits on specific streets. Public comments and approval of minutes wrap up the agenda.
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