Shelby County Sheriff Willis Blackwell reports that on Monday,

February 15, 2016 at approximately 0741hrs, Shelby County Sheriff's

Department was contacted by Nacogdoches Police Department who advised that

a vehicle registered to a Raymond Carson of Center was located in a

Nacogoches city park located on Pearl Street near the intersection of West

Main Street. It was advised that a subject identified as a Thomas Wayne

Hughes, Jr., 31 of Garrison was located inside the vehicle bound with

handcuffs and zipties.

 

     

 

Sergeant Investigator DJ Dickerson was notified of the situation in

which he along with Deputy Kurtes Lawrence and Patrol Sergeant Michael

Griffin traveled to the residence to which the vehicle was registered to, a

Raymond Carson located at 14834 Highway 7 West, Center, Texas. Upon

arrival, contact was made with a Raymond Carson who at that time realized

that his 2005 Toyota Tacoma was stolen. Mr. Carson had a game camera

attached to a tree that was pointing towards the residence where the

vehicle was parked and upon reviewing the SD card with photographs, (2)

photographs were found time stamped 0241am and 0304am in which a white male

subject of slender build wearing blue jeans and a hoodie was walking

towards Carson's vehicle. It was found that the subject that was located in

Carson's vehicle by Nacogdoches Police Department officers was the same

observed in the photographs on the game camera.

 

 

 

Sergeant Investigator DJ Dickerson traveled to a neighboring

residence next to Carson's residence and spoke with a subjects who advised

that a Thomas Hughes, Jr. was over at his place and had left sometime in

the night possibly through a bedroom window due to the window being found

open and the doors locked and secured.

 

 

 

Sergeant Investigator Donnie G. Dickerson, Jr. spoke to Detective

Killinsworth with Nacogdoches Police Department who advised that the

defendant, a Thomas Wayne Hughes, Jr. had confessed that he had stolen the

vehicle from the Carson residence last night and advised that he had bound

himself with the handcuffs and zipties.

 

     

 

It was also discovered through the investigation that Hughes had

traveled through a fence line to exit from the property due to a gate being

secured.

 

 

Warrants were issued for Thomas Hughes, Jr. for the charges of

Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, State Jail Felony and Criminal

Mischief, Misdemeanor B. Hughes was arrested for said charges and has since

been transferred to the Shelby County Sheriff's Department and was

arraigned by Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Maxie Eaves receiving a total

bond for both charges set at $7,000 and was released on the 23rd of

February.