NEWS
Bowie business owner arrested on 3 warrants alleging fraud
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
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.
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.
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. on May 13 in council chambers.
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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