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.

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