Fox 4 TV News video. HEATH, Texas – A man with criminal intentions was able to walk into an elementary school in Heath Thursday and sit down to eat lunch with students.
Police said Desi Smalley knocked on a side door at Dorothy Smith Pullen Elementary School. A student opened it and let him in.
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By J.J. Smith. Rockwall ISD Executive Director of Communications Sheri Fowler issued a letter late yesterday to parents about the man who snuck into Dorothy Pullen Elementary School in Heath yesterday without registering at the front desk and tried to buy ice cream for school children in the lunch line.
Police arrested him this morning in [...]

WFAA-TV Video News. HEATH – Police have arrested a man who is accused of attempted kidnapping, after he allegedly slipped into a side door at Dorothy Smith Pullen Elementary, on Thursday.
Desi Smalley, 36, was caught in Arkansas this morning.
He’ll soon be on his way back to North Texas.
The incident has every school in the Rockwall district [...]

Greenville Herald Banner. Trial is scheduled to begin this week for a Royse City-area man, charged with aggravated assault in connection with a November 2007 shootout with law enforcement officers.
Jury selection is set for Monday morning in the 196th District Court for Johnny Joe Webb, 42, who has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of [...]

By J.J. Smith. Former Rockwall County District Attorney Ray Sumrow will be paroled from a state jail this week after serving only 15 months of his 15-year jail sentence.
He was convicted in March, 2008, and sentenced in June, 2008, to 15 years in jail for stealing government property.
No reason has yet been obtained why he [...]

Rockwall County Herald-Banner. A 31-year-old Arlington man was assessed two 17-year prison terms this week on drug charges involving almost a kilo of cocaine and 99 pounds of marijuana.
Judge Brett Hall sentenced Valentin Acuna on Wednesday after a jury took less than 20 minutes to find him guilty of possession with intent to deliver more [...]

By J.J. Smith. Two Rockwall residents, with apparent connections to a Mexican drug cartel, were charged this week in connection with transporting 62 pounds of marijuana through Carlton County, Minnesota.
Jorge Gutierrez-Salazar, 24, faces a felony charge of third-degree possession of a controlled substance, while Graciela Yadit Medrano, 21, is charged with felony third-degree possession of [...]

 
By J.J. Smith. A Royse City man has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a Rockwall County jury after stealing nearly $100,000 from his former employer, Goliad Dental in Rockwall, owned by Dr. Barney Barnhill.
Former Office Manager Billy Ray Benavidez, 35, (pictured above) was ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 by the [...]

By J.J. Smith. A Rockwall County grand jury has indicted a former life skills teacher and assistant volleyball coach at Quinlan Ford High School on charges that he had a sexual relationship with one of his former female students at his home in Rockwall County June 1.
Kevin Lawrence Carr, 28, was charged Nov. 18 with sexual assault of a [...]

By J.J. Smith. The death of 2008 Rockwall High School graduate Alexis Lancaster was an “accident, caused by the combined effects of heroin, alprazolam and diphenhydramine,” according to the official toxicology report just released by the Dallas County Coroner’s office.
The report was completed Dec. 8, according to a spokesperson with the Coroner’s Office.
According to Dallas Police, there will be no further investigation [...]