NEWS
Bowie Police Departent ‘growing its own’ officers
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie Police are shuffling once more as one officer leaves, a patrol officer shifts to school resource officer and newer officers to the department continue learning the ropes.
Police Chief Guy Green reported Paul Magers, SRO at the elementary, was leaving to take a similar job at Bridgeport Police Department. Green said he hated to lose the officer, but it is hard to compete with positions that pay $20,000 more a year. Magers has been with the department since 2018 and SRO since fall 2019.
Patrol Officer Jerry Dilday has been appointed to the SRO vacancy and is attending his first training for the new post. He has been with the department since April 2019.
BPD is now on the search once more for a patrol officer and Green said it continues to be difficult to get qualified applicants. As July came to a close the chief was happy to report he is talking with an experienced officer he hopes will come on board.
The department is budgeted for nine patrol officers, four SROs, two detectives, the assistant chief and the chief. If they fill the patrol position, the department will be fully staffed for the moment, but the pending retirement of Sgt. Kurt Berryman in October will change things once more. Bowie Independent School Districts pays the majority of the salaries for the SROs, while the city provides the vehicle and equipment. When school is out, the officers work patrol.
The last three positions in the department have been filled by what could be called “grow-your-own officers,” as the department paid for the officers to attend police academy in return for a three-year commitment to work at Bowie PD.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
NEWS
Bowie Council meets June 23
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
NEWS
City of Bowie reports heat advisory today
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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NEWS
Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area
Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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