A Funeral Service for Arthur Faulkner, 91, will be Saturday, April 9, 2011, at 2:00 PM at Cason Monk-Metcalf Sunset Chapel. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
Arthur passed away on Thursday, April 7, 2011, in Nacogdoches. He was born January, 31, 1920, in Nacogdoches.
Visitation will be from 12:00pm – 2:00pm prior to the service on Saturday, April 9, 2011.
Condolences may be offered at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors.
Funeral service for Col. Robert Glenn Davis (Ret.), 79, of Chireno, Texas will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2011, at 11:00 am at Chireno Baptist Church with Bro. Waylon Brown officiating. Burial will follow at Chireno Lower Cemetery.
Mr. Davis was born on May 12, 1931, in Chireno, Texas. He passed away after a brief illness on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, in Dallas, Texas.
Visitation with the family will be held on Friday, April 8, 2011, from 6-8 pm at Laird Funeral Home.
The following is the information provided by the US Attorney General’s Office.
U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 14 individuals have been arrested following a year-long investigation into drug trafficking in the Lufkin and Nacogdoches area.
A 12-count sealed indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on Mar. 17, 2011, charging 11 individuals with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. Three of the individuals are also charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. A separate sealed indictment in another unrelated case was also filed on Mar. 17, 2011, charging Teodocio Carrera, also known as Maclovio Ocon, along with two other individuals, with conspiracy with intent to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine.
The following individuals are in custody:
Defendants in Custody: DOB City of Residence
Jesus Pineda 4/24/1982 Nacogdoches, Texas
Antonio Mendoza 1/17/1986 Nacogdoches, Texas
Israel Colin 8/20/1982 Nacogdoches, Texas
Esteban Castro 9/26/1985 Nacogdoches, Texas
Robert Max Wilson 4/17/1986 Lufkin, Texas
Leocadio Garcia Rivera 9/26/1984 Nacogdoches, Texas
Eleazar Rivera Estrada 2/03/1989 Nacogdoches, Texas
Augustin Chacon 9/28/1966 Lufkin, Texas
Armando Colin 8/21/1983 Nacogdoches, Texas
Ramiro Samarripa 5/29/1969 Lufkin, Texas
Margarita Pineda unknown Nacogdoches, Texas
Nelson Rodriguez 3/13/1974 Nacogdoches, Texas
Teodocio Carrera a/k/a 5/29/1962 Nacogdoches, Texas
Maclovio Ocon
The indictment seeks the forfeiture of $1 million cash in drug proceeds. The indictment also seeks forfeiture of 6 pieces of real estate property in Lufkin and Nacogdoches and multiple vehicles that were utilized in the drug trafficking crimes.
This case is being investigated by the FBI, the ATF, Texas Department of Public Safety – Criminal Investigations Division, the Nacogdoches Police Department, the Lufkin Police Department, assisted by the Angelina County Sheriff’s Department, the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office, Center Police Department, Nacogdoches County Constable Precinct 4, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Marshals Service. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Flournoy.
A grand jury indictment is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Jail that lists the arrests made from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office that list the reports from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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On 04/06/11 an officer was dispatched to the lobby of UPD in reference to Fail to Stop and Give Information report. Upon arrival it was found that complainant’s vehicle had been damaged while parked in the Village Parking Garage. There are so suspects.
On 04/06/2011 an officer was dispatched to the Village Parking Garage in reference to a Fail to Stop and Give Information report. Upon arrival the complainant advised that her vehicle was damaged on 04/06/2011 between 1000 hours and 2100 hours. There are no suspects.
On 04/06/2011 an officer was dispatched to the Student Recreation Center in reference to a theft. Upon arrival the complainant stated that his wallet, keys and headphones were stolen from an unsecured locker at the recreation center. There are no suspects.
Marc Cossich
Chief of Police
The SFA College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present the Piney Woods Camerata at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
The conductor-less ensemble formed in 2007, is composed of SFA string faculty members Drs. Jennifer Dalmas (violin) and Evgeni Raychev (cello) together with select SFA string students. The group is dedicated to performing music from the baroque and classical periods. For the April 10 concert, pianist Dr. Geneva Fung, SFA staff accompanist, will join the group.
The program will feature “Concerto Grosso No. 7” by Arcangelo Corelli and works by other leading composers of the late baroque period, including Tomaso Albinoni and Georg Philipp Telemann.
The concert is a part of the School of Music’s Cole Performing Arts Series. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $2 for students. For tickets or more information, please visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu or call (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS.
This is a complete list of reports responded to by the Nacogdoches Police Department
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The School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University has announced that works by five Nacogdoches and Lufkin artists will be included in “TEXAS NATIONAL 2011,” which will open with a 6 to 8:30 p.m. reception Saturday, April 9, in the Ledbetter Gallery of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, located at 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches. The show will run through Saturday, May 21.
Among the 114 pieces selected for the national juried exhibition are “Dependence” and “Manipulated,” two sculptures by SFA senior Emilie Gaultier of Houston; “White Elephant,” a photograph by SFA senior Katrina Goins of Timpson; and “Dear John,” a mulit-media piece by SFA alumnus and Nacogdoches resident Byron Lacy.
Also selected were “Untitled,” a digital print by Lufkin artist Jan Anderson-Paxon, and “it’s the little things, 1, 2 & 3,” a series of prints by Denise Stringer Davis, Lufkin High School art teacher.
Created by the SFA School of Art, TEXAS NATIONAL is celebrating its 17th year on the national scene, said Lisa Steed, the university’s interim director of galleries. The competition is open to all artists living and working in the United States and is juried each year by an internationally acclaimed artist.
More than 600 artists from 39 states entered this year’s competition. Works by 98 artists from 29 states were chosen for the exhibition, and cash prizes totaling $3,500 will be awarded to three artists during the show’s opening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9.
Lubbock native James Drake, who received The Texas Medal of Arts Award for Visual Arts in March, is serving as the juror for this year’s event. He will announce the winners of the competition during the opening reception.
Running concurrently with “TEXAS NATIONAL 2011” upstairs in the Reavley Gallery will be “James Drake: Recent Works.” At 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, Drake will give an artist’s lecture in SFA’s Music Building, Room 160.
Regular hours for The Cole Art Center are 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Both “TEXAS NATIONAL 2011” and “James Drake: Recent Works” are sponsored in part by SFA Friends of the Visual Arts and Nacogdoches Junior Forum.
For more information, please call (936) 468-1131.
This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Jail that lists the arrests made from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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