NEWS
Bowie business owner arrested on 3 warrants alleging fraud
By BARBARA GREEN
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A Bowie businesswoman was arrested March 26 in Hood County on three state jail felony warrants for tampering with government documents, allegedly falsifying her date of birth.
Tawni Jones Ledbetter, 58, Bowie, was jailed on arrest warrants obtained by a state police investigator with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts criminal investigation division.
The warrant affidavits were presented to 97th District Judge Trish Byars on Tuesday. Bonds of $10,000 were set on each warrant and Ledbetter was released from jail on Wednesday.
Ledbetter bought The Rack Pub and Eatery, 210 Mason in the summer of 2015, and later purchased with a business partner The Brick in the former Heard’s building, operating it for a brief period of time.
The arrest affidavits were prepared by Daniel Doss, state police investigator with TCPA-CID and they center on allegations Ledbetter falsified
documents used to obtain a Texas driver’s license and in filing for political office as she ran for Bowie mayor, all stemming from falsifying her date of birth.
The specific charge on each warrant is tampering with a government record/defraud, which is a state jail felony.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
Montague County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on Dec. 23.
The court will consider obligating $276,961.84 of American Rescue Plan funds to completing the new wastewater treatment plant that will serve the courthouse complex. Commissioners have been working on this project much of the year.
Montague County will apply to the Nortex Regional Planning Commission for a solid waste disposal grant to purchase a tire cutter for use by all four precincts.
Developers for Kingdom Estates Phase 2 subdivision will offer a plant for lots 6-10, 16.06 acres located in precinct two.
A cooperative agreement between Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and the county will be presented, along with a non-exclusive license and service agreement between Local Government Solutions and Justices of the Peace one and two.
Annual bonds for seven elected officials will be offered, along with the county attorney’s 2024 Chapter 59 Asset Forfeiture report.
Montague County has received a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist individuals with the purchase and installation of a residential storm shelter.
The shelter must be FEMA-approved and individuals must install and pay for the shelter. After installation and passing an inspection, the individual could be eligible for 50% reimbursement of the cost of the storm shelter up to a maximum $3,000 reimbursement.
The initial program allows for financial assistance for the installation of up to 100 storm shelters. Visit the Montague County website at co.montague.tx.us and click on “Safe Room Program,” and under quick links to see the qualifications and requirements for participation in the program.
There is no deadline to apply, but only 100 applicants will be accepted
It’s here, the first day of winter marked by the winter solstice at 4:21 a.m. on Dec. 21.
The winter solstice is the day with the fewest hours of sunlight throughout the year, making it the “shortest day” of the year. Thankfully, after the winter solstice the days begin to grow longer and longer again and until the summer solstice, the first day of summer and the longest day of the year
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