This interview was recorded Wednesday, Nov. 3, at the Henderson County Justice Center.
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In this week's Sheriff's Report, Sheriff Botie Hillhouse talks about a raid on a game room, two separate stabbings, and a drug bust that included heroin and morphine.
I. Stats (:35)
There are currently 445 in custody with 98 of those being contract inmates.
II. Game Room Bust (1:12)
Tuesday evening, deputies executed a search warrant on a game room and the residence of the game room's owner located on the same property between Eustace and Payne Springs.
Sheriff Hillhouse said there were two arrests, methamphetamine was found in the game room, and about 35 gaming machines were seized.
"It was another successful operation," he said. "We're looking forward to the other game rooms in the area. Hopefully, they will just close down before we get to them because we're having to do them one at a time, but we're slowly but surely getting there."
III. Stabbings (3:35)
Sheriff Hillhouse said the Sheriff's Office investigated a pair of stabbings on the same day last week.
One was in a subdivision south of Chandler, where two people were stabbed. The victims are OK, but the Sheriff's Office is still searching for the suspect.
Later, the Sheriff's Office received a call about a stabbing on the west end of the county near Payne Springs. The investigation showed it was an attempted burglary where the owners came home and confronted the suspect, who stabbed them. They defended themselves, injuring the suspect who was later taken into custody.
"We had two stabbings calls back-to-back which is odd, we usually don't have a lot of these," said Sheriff Hillhouse.
IV. Drug Bust (6:22)
A traffic stop led to the arrest of a man for heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and morphine.
Michael Shane Thomas, 37, was stopped around 10:30 p.m. on West Main Street for a faulty brake light. He told Deputy Jonathan Barrios he was carrying drugs.
Eventually, he surrendered a black, sticky substance believed to be heroin and a plastic wrapper containing cocaine.
He was also in possession of marijuana and morphine.
"We don't see a lot of heroin, but it is seeming to be more often," said Sheriff Hillhouse.
