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OBITUARIES
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Mount Pleasant Police
(SWAT
Public probable cause, instructed including
I was guilty and I had
Helen Ellis
which
have
death threats toward and right to silence and
wanting to kill the police
the threats interrogated, in order to
safety in case an officer
encountered
Carolyn Porter
criminal and completely rights, but is unsure what
the assault and $50,000 being offered to have therapeutic pony would
The total amount of increase over the current
opportunity to have be frightened enough to
$12,724
year’s budget.
See GILES Page 5
The number of employees compensated under
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
the proposed budget.
9
The number of employees compensated under
the current budget.
9
If approved by the appraisal district board of
directors at the public hearing, this proposed budget
will take effect automatically unless disapproved by
the governing bodies of the county, school districts,
cities and towns served by the appraisal district.
were
said
Copyright 2017 Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
P.O. Box 1177, Mount Pleasant, Texas 75456
at Harris Chapel Ceme-
tery under the direction
of Reeder-Davis Funeral
Home in Hughes Springs.
There will be a time of
visitation from 6-8 p.m.,
Friday evening at the fu-
and others.
Because
The public hearing will be held on July 18, 2017 at
4:00 PM, located at 2404 W. Ferguson Mt. Pleasant,
TX 75456. A summary of the appraisal district
budget follows:
Services for Helen El-
lis, 81, will be 10 a.m.,
Saturday, July 1, 2017,
at Harris Chapel United
Methodist Church with
Bro. Les Colley offici-
ating. Burial will follow
a
an
The appraisal district is supported solely by
payments from the local taxing units served by the
appraisal district.
Department,
County
Department,
comfortable as possible
and even fed lunch.
Bob and Dina Giles
claim that after Ashley
was taken into custody,
the rest of the family,
Acopy of the proposed budget is available for public
inspection in the office of each of those governing
bodies. Acopy is also available for public inspection
at the appraisal district office
located at 2404 W. Ferguson Mt. Pleasant TX.
75456.
Obituaries for free publication in
the Mount Pleasant Tribune must be
submitted only by email to news@
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Wednesday’s print publication, and
by noon on Friday for Saturday’s print
publication.
Obituaries will all be posted on the
Notice of Public Hearing on
Titus County Appraisal District Budget
The Titus County Appraisal District will hold a public
hearing on a proposed budget 2018 for the fiscal
year.
Camp Regional Medical Center drinks, made to feel as
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criminal mischief greater
than $30,000, less than
$150,000 value. Giles III
was arraigned, and bonds
were set at $750,000 on
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The total amount of the proposed budget.
$849,034
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Miranda rights,
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Safety, Texas Department to kill her vehicle, place children
Longview resident.
Based on the above
information, a perimeter
was maintained around
the residence as well as
in the area to make sure
there was no outside
threat to area residents.
All occupants of the
she was pushed into
an interrogation room.
She also claims that she
was recorded during the
local law enforcement,
based on the fact that
he had been making
curse at the officer, but
when I made a comment
to the officers about
Texas family’s drive-way, she
Texas was pulled over without
Giles, confused as to what was
Constable’s and East Texas Medical
the Center in Pittsburg.
“When we got to the
gate, there was a SWAT
team with guns pointed
at all of us, including
my grandchildren,” said
Bob Giles. “They had
‘Trey’ and I raise up our
shirts to prove that we
weren’t armed, which
we were not. We were
all cooperative. My son
was very respectful, but
they cuffed him. I was
however very angry at
Robert Darrell “Trey”
Ashley claims that
as she pulled out of her
arrested.”
Bob Giles claims he
was read his Miranda
husband Jimmy, Charlotte
Ann Lindsey and husband
Buddy, and Becky Raper
and husband Colin.
She was preceded in
death by her parents, a
brother, and one sister.
A graveside service
will be held Wednesday,
June 28, at 2 p.m. at New
Mine Cemetery in Camp
County.
of Transportation, air
support by the Mid
America Flight Museum
out of Mount Pleasant
and Camp County EMS.
Through the course of
the investigation, it was
neral home.
Ms. Ellis was born
March 22, 1936, and
passed away June 20,
2017. Online condolences
can be left at www.reed-
er-davis.com.
Giles claimed she
attorney present.
violated. They treated me
awful. One officer was
very rude and told me to
stand up straight while he
was asking me questions
about who was in the
house. When I got to the
The phone number of the TITUS COUNTY
APPRAISAL DISTRICT is: 903-572-7939.
The address is: 2404 W. FERGUSON MT.
PLEASANT TX. 75456.
Patsy Quillin
Quillin; her two sons:
Chris Kelly and wife
Tina, and James Quillin;
a daughter: Donna Kelly;
three grandchildren: Ash-
ley Morales and husband
Michael, Zachary Kelly
and wife Jessica, and Ryan
Kelly; a great-grandson:
Kamen Kelly; a brother:
Michael Self; and three
sisters: Nancy Halbert and
III. Even though the going on,” said Ashley
information the sheriff Giles. “I needed to call
otherwise known as
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Carolyn Porter, 74,
of Dekalb, Texas died
Wednesday, June 28,
2017, in Texarkana, Texas.
A cremation service will
determined that one of the talking about,”
persons in the residence Ashley Giles.
Department
Team), the
Rangers, the
Department of
Patsy Quillin, 63,
passed away Tuesday
morning, June 27, at her
home in Pittsburg. Patsy
was born Oct. 18, 1953 in
Greenville, Texas to G.B.
“Buck” and Ruthie Kirk-
patrick Self. Patsy was a
devoted wife and mother,
and adored her family.
She is survived by her
husband: Richard Paul
I felt like a common
her hands on the steering on their cell phone and
wheel and step out of instructed to walk from
the vehicle and then was the house to the gate at
handcuffed. the end of the Gile’s long
“They asked me if driveway.
Giles, III, of Pittsburg, was denied a phone call
was arrested and charged when she arrived at the
with aggravated assault Camp County Sheriff
on a public servant and Department and that
identifying information going on, but was denied
showed he was a use of my cell phone.
were deemed serious, preserve the admissibility the fact they pointed their
a region-wide Teletype of their statements guns at my grandchildren,
was sent out for officer against them. What man wouldn’t be? I
the four
were called
he was actually charged
with.
“It was embarrassing,”
he said. “None of us have
ever had a record and it’s
just a serious thing. I’m
not trying to get anyone
in trouble. I could lose
my job and my reputation
in this town over this, but
you just don’t point guns
at kids,” he said.
After Bob Giles was
taken into custody, Dina
Giles claims that she was
cuffed for asking if she
could check to make sure
her horse and dogs were
watered, but an officer
told her to “shut-up,” and
cuffed her. Giles claims
there was a helicopter
flying in low vicinity
over their property,
which made her fear
was Robert Darrell Giles, Giles also claims that
III, a person of interest the officers did not read
by the sheriff’s office and her the Miranda warning,
interrogation without that her granddaughter’s
“I was completely do not curse and I did not
on the criminal mischief. an
According to the an
parents of Gile’s, III, Bob
and Dina Giles, these were
not the circumstances of
Wednesday morning’s
disturbance.
Bob Giles claims
that he, his wife, Dina,
daughter Ashley, son
“Trey” and their four
grandchildren ages 3,
11 months old, 7 and 9
were asleep when he was
awaken by the sound of
gunfire.
Bob Giles claims the
9-year-old and 7-year-old
were asleep in an upstairs
bedroom, while the
3-year-old and 11-month-
old were asleep in Bob
and Dina’s bedroom.
Giles also claims that
the suspect, Giles, III, as
well his daughter, Ashley
were asleep in their
bedrooms in the upper
level of the house.
“After hearing several
shots, I called 911 and
was told a neighbor
had already called in to
report prowlers on our
property,” said Bob Giles.
“When the police showed
up, we were told to stay
inside the house while
the deputies searched our
property for prowlers. We
felt safe, so we went back
to sleep and woke up at
residence voluntarily police station, I needed to
came out of the house use the restroom and the
when requested. The female officers would not
occupants of the let me use the restroom
residence were detained, without them watching
interviewed and released me. I’m working two
except for Giles III. jobs and trying to work
After the scene was my way through physical
processed, 24-year-old therapy assistant school.”
received indicated he my boss to inform my pointing their guns at the
lived on FM 556, all workplace of what was kids, I was cuffed and
be held at a later date. Ser- Online condolenc-
vices are under the direc- es may be left at www.
tion of J.C. White Funeral jcwhitefd.com.
& Cremation Services of
Mt. Pleasant, Texas.
rounds through the approximately 6 a.m.” She claims that she was
windshield and the front RobertGile’sdaughter, released at 12:45 p.m. on
of the vehicle, which Ashley Giles, claimed Wednesday.
disabled the patrol car. that at approximately 6 According to Sheriff
Camp County Sheriff, a.m., she was leaving McCandless, Ashley
Alan D. McCandless, the family home to Giles was questioned
asked for assistance go to work. Ashley in the office library,
from the Pittsburg Police is employed at Titus where she was offered
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