Recommendations to improve Pecos Police Department
A three man committee formed last December released a report in The Enterprise outlining improvements for the Pecos Police Department. It calls for a detailed policy manual, job descriptions, higher funding for salaries equipment and training, better use of crime scene tools, cooperation with Reeves County Sheriff's Office, and monthly interagency sessions to share information and address issues.
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Pecos
Enterprise
Billy Frank Davenport
Charles Smith
Bill Moss
J.J. Maxey
Ted Painter
Tee
Council
Police Department
Reeves County Sheriff's Department
City Council Set for Long Agenda Tomorrow
Pecos City Council will meet tomorrow at city hall at 7 30 a m with a lengthy agenda including a request to support Reeves County Commissioners Court limits on carnival placement to one per year at the rodeo fair ground. Fleuterio Garcia will discuss the police department and Jimmy Gomez will address Chicano Chamber of Commerce.
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Pecos
City Hall
Reeves County Commissioners
Fleuterio M. Garcia
Police Department
Jimmy Gomez
Chicano Camara de Commercio
Chicano Chamber of Commerce
Texas man threatened President during tow truck hijack
Phillip Estes Reed, 37, of San Antonio Texas, is charged in Greene County circuit Court with kidnapping a tow truck driver and in U S District Court with threatening to kill President Carter. Reed allegedly stole a car in Pecos and tried to tow it toward Washington while saying he wanted to kill the president.
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Springfield
Texas
Carter
Phillip Estes Reed
San Antonio
Pecos
Washington
Flagstaff
Ariz
Reed
Greene County
U.S
Pecos Weather Warmed Up With 78 High
Weather report notes Pecos reached 78 degrees yesterday while the previous day was 57. The forecast calls for fair, warmer conditions through Thursday across West Texas with highs near 70 to 90 in various regions and lower elevations around 40s to mid 50s. The city council weighs a weather wire proposal, traffic stop signs, a police investigation report, and a land purchase offer of 737.83 dollars for Lot 2, Block 23, College Addition.
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Pecos
Associated Press
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Mountains
KIU
Willow
Llth St
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah
Police Department
Freddie Ornelas
College Addition
Lozano death inquest hears officers' actions questioned
Mary Chandler Thomas testified she saw a sheriff's deputy press Lozano's head to the floor and knees on his back after a scuffle in his cell on January 22. Medical examiner Bornstein said Lozano suffocated from neck pressure, reversing earlier homicide conclusion. The six person jury weighs whether the death was homicide or related injuries amid civil rights tensions.
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Odessa
Texas
Ector
Larry Lozano
Mary Chandler Thomas
Lozano
Frederick Bornstein
el Paso
Bornstein
Ector County
Elton Faught
West Texas
Ms. Thomas
John Green
John Hill
Green
Hill
Richard Orr
San Angelo Standard-Times
Austin
Grand jury examines Estes dealings in Abilene Texas
Federal grand jury probes Billie Sol Estes as IRS FBI and Postal Service review his affairs since parole. The probe centers on a $50,000 Burkett suit and two $25,000 checks tied to Abilene firms. Goolsby backed Burkett with Pyron funds. Estes seeks parole relief and Civil rights restoration. IRS suit targets Estes and wife for $46 million tax irregularities.
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Abilene, Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Internal Revenue Service
FBI
U.S. Postal Service
Estes
West Texas
Proval
Parole Board
Abilene
State Attorney General's
Grand Jury
Sue Goolsby
J.H. Burkett
Highland Church of Christ
Burket
Frenchman's Creek Inc
Abilene Electronics
Permian Petroleum
MS. Goolsby
Burkett
Tyler
Billy Pyron
IRS
Patsy
Lozano death hearing notes alleged jailer beating
Witnesses testified Lozano was beaten in a padded cell as deputies tackled him in a hallway. The hearing, led by Justice of the Peace Virgle Lumpee, prompted a courtroom crowd clearance at the district attorney’s request.
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Justice of the Peace
Lozano
Texas Supreme Court bars checkerboard precincts in Hansford case
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Hansford County may not divide commissioners precincts into noncontiguous areas. The decision, upholding a Amarillo Court of Civil Appeals ruling, found no reversible error in striking down the 1976 lines that split Spearman and Grover into multiple districts. Burth Gumbrey had challenged the apportionment.
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Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Hansford County
Hansford
Hutchinson
Ochiltree
High Court
Amarillo
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Wanda Dutchover
David Dutchover
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Albuquerque
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Robert Hinojos
Jim Livingston
Jerry Dempsey
Dee Farnum
Tommy Beauchamp
Jo Ann Beauchamp
Nita Smith
Livingston
Jay Dycus
Estes Dealings
Supreme Court
Diamonds
Farnum Jewelry
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