NEWS
Monday crime reports keep lawmen hopping
Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas said things were hopping Monday morning with a pair of incidents that included assault of a peace officer and an alleged stabbing during an attempted aggravated robbery.
After a very hectic Sunday where deputies helped track down suspects from a high speed chase that began in Clay County, Monday opened up early.
Stabbing report
Thomas said at 5:18 a.m. a 911 call came in from a man who said he had been stabbed while attempting to get gasoline at the Sunset Gas and Grill, located on the service road at U.S. 287 and Highway 101.
Monday morning Thomas said the details were still preliminary, but the injured man, Caleb Schlomach, 30, Alvord, called while he was driving to get medical help. He said a white male with long hair came up to him and demanded money before stabbing him with a knife.
Investigation by the sheriff’s department found Schlomach changed his story indicating it took place at a different location and he knew the man who attacked him, but would not identify him.
Nocona Police were called to the Dairy Queen around 3 a.m. Monday following what appeared to be a “road rage” incident with a vehicle said Police Chief Kent Holcomb.
A man driving a vehicle had got into a confrontation with another driver, then he reportedly began doing donuts in the restaurant parking lot where he allegedly ran into an employee’s parked vehicle before driving away.
Officer Cody Stone went to the man’s house after witnesses told them who he was. When officers attempted to arrest the suspect, Granville Mitchell, 30, Nocona, he fought with the officer and a deputy who had arrived for backup. They were finally able to get him into custody and took him to the county jail.
Sheriff Thomas said when Mitchell was being booked into jail, and his handcuffs being removed he began to fight with the police and deputies, and threatened the jailors. They believed he was intoxicated.
Read the full story on both these incidents in the Thursday Bowie News.
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.
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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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