On behalf of Sheriff David Jones and Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office we’d like to say thank you to our Dispatchers for all the sacrifices they make to create a better and safer world for the public. Your commitment to your profession is appreciated by all of TGSO, and the citizens you serve.

National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week began in 1981 and is celebrated the second week of April each year, with this year going from April 9 to April 14. This week offers a much-deserved thanks for our dispatchers who perform the most underrated and under-appreciated yet the most stressful and important job in public service.

A dispatcher is generally the first point of contact, the true first responder, and the unseen hero. A dispatcher’s job is a complicated one. It is exciting, rewarding, fulfilling, and becomes a way of life. It is also stressful, exhausting, thankless, and forgotten by so many.

Dispatchers are a rare breed. A good dispatcher can be on a 911 call giving pre-arrival instructions, entering information into the computer, checking on an officer at a traffic stop, running a license plate, all while taking a bite of lukewarm food, and wondering how their sick child is. Dispatchers prove that multi-tasking does exist, and they’re good at it!

Show your dispatchers some love, respect and appreciation this week. Give them a heartfelt “thank you” for a job well done. A dispatcher’s job is thankless, and they all deserve this week of recognition and honor.

PRESS RELEASE: 3/22/18

UPDATE: HOMICIDE

On 3-20-2018, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a citizen had discovered a body in a trash dumpster located in the 1000 block of Cactus Lane in Tom Green County. The Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office along with the Texas Rangers responded to the location, processed the scene and recovered the body of a 24 year old Hispanic female. The deceased was identified as Camille Garcia who had been living in San Angelo area without any specific address. Justice of the Pease J.P. McGuire conducted an inquest and ordered an autopsy to be performed. On 3-21-2018, an autopsy was performed at the South Plains Forensic Pathology in Lubbock, Texas and cause of death was determined to be a single gunshot wound.

On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office Investigators along with investigators from the Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division, Texas Rangers and the San Angelo Police Department Street Crimes Division began developing leads and conducting interviews in the investigation. On Wednesday afternoon Andres Rios Ramirez became a subject of interest in the investigation. Tom Green County Sheriff’s Deputy Grayson Heirs observed Ramirez operating a vehicle on the Southside of San Angelo and conducted a traffic stop on Ramirez with the knowledge that Ramirez did not have a valid driver license. During the traffic stop, Deputy Heirs discovered a loaded pistol in the vehicle. Andres Ramirez was taken to the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office where he was questioned by the lead Tom Green County Investigators Andrew Alwine and Corey Speck. Investigators obtained a confession from Ramirez.
On 3-21-2018, an arrest warrant charging Ramirez with the offense of Murder was issued by Justice of the Peace J.P. McGuire. Ramirez was booked into the Tom Green County Jail.

On 3-21-2018, a search warrant was issued and executed at 629 Antonio Street, San Angelo, Texas by members of the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Rangers, Texas DPS Criminal Investigations Division and the San Angelo Police Detective Division. Evidence was seized from the residence that established the fact that the murder had occurred at the residence.

Tom Green County Sheriff David Jones expressed his gratitude for the public’s response to his request for information on the victim along with the valuable assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the San Angelo Police Department in bringing this tragic case to a conclusion in such a quick and efficient manner.

HOMICIDE

PRESS RELEASE: 3-21-2018

On March 20, 2018, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a citizen had discovered a body in a dumpster in the 1000 block of Cactus Lane in Tom Green County. The Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office along with the Texas Rangers responded to the location and processed the scene. The deceased has been identified as 24 year old Camille Garcia.

The Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in this investigation. Anyone who has been acquainted with or knows Garcia, or has had any contact with her in the past week, to please contact the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office as soon as possible. Sergeant Andrew Alwine is the lead investigator in this case. He can be contacted at 325-655-8111 or at the office located at 222 West Harris, San Angelo, Texas.

Any information on Garcia could be helpful to the investigators, so please assist us in bringing the perpetrator or perpetrators of this homicide involving this young mother to justice.

PRESS RELEASE

March 20, 2018

Manufacturing and Delivery of a Control Substance PG1>=400G

On Monday, March 19, 2018, Tom Green County Sheriff’s Deputy Syed Shah initiated a traffic stop on a 2016 Ford Focus for a traffic violation in the 8000 block of U.S. Hwy 87 North in Tom Green County. The vehicle was being operated by Todd James Kruse. As Deputy Shah was in the process of conducting his violator contact, Deputy Shah developed probable cause to conduct a search of the vehicle. During the search of the vehicle three kilos (approximately 6 ½ pounds) of methamphetamine was discovered in the passenger compartment of the vehicle.

Todd Kruse, the driver of the vehicle and the passenger identified as Omar Castaneda were both arrested and transported to the Tom Green County jail.

Both Todd Kruse and Omar Castaneda were booked into the Tom Green County Jail for Manufacturing and Delivery of a Control Substance PG1>= 400G. Kruse listed his address in Odessa, Texas and Castaneda listed his address in Snyder, Texas.

The Sheriff's Office is asking for your help in locating the owner of this calf. On Friday, January 26, 2018 this multi-color with dark brown face calf was found wandering in the 1700 block of Baker Drive off of Paint Rock road. Several attempts were made to locate the owner but all attempts failed. If you have any information as to who the owner is, please call the Tom Green County Sheriff’s Office at 325-655-8111. Please feel free to share this post.

On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 1:43 p.m., Tom Green County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Farmer initiated a traffic stop on a 1982 Pontiac Gran Prix for a traffic violation on Side View Road in Tom Green County. The vehicle was being operated by John Robert Arispe. As Deputy Farmer was verifying information on Arispe, he left the scene of the traffic stop and a vehicle pursuit ensued. Arispe attempted to turn left onto FM 2105 from Side View Road and lost control of his vehicle and wrecked. Arispe was arrested without further incident and transported to the Tom Green County jail.

A probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted and methamphetamine in excess of 280 grams, a large sum of U. S. Currency and scales were located in the vehicle.

Arispe was booked into the Tom Green County Jail for Manufacturing and Delivery of a Control Substance PG1>=200G<400G, Evading Arrest and Detention, Possession and Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia and two (2) local Tom Green County Warrants.