Montgomery County, TX

About 1:15 a.m. Friday Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office started receiving calls of a possible dead body in the roadway on FM 1314 in front of Porter High School. Units responded and found an adult male deceased in the roadway. DPS is investigating the crash. They believe it was a hit-and-run crash. After the initial vehicle contacted the victim at least two other vehicles are believed to have struck him in the eastbound moving lane of traffic. The male was dressed in dark clothes on an unlit part of the roadway where the speed limit is 55mph. DPS determined non of the two vehicles that stopped after partially striking the victim were not involved in the initial incident as there was no damage to the vehicle. Montgomery County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Jason Dunn responded to the scene for the inquest. . He ordered Eickenhorst Funeral Directors to transport the victim to the Montgomery County Forensic Center for identification and autopsy. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constables assisted as did the Montgomery County District Attorneys Office. DPS is asking anyone with any information to contact the New Caney DPS Office.

Friday the Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon along with his Chief Prosecutor over vehicular crimes met with Constable Rowdy Haden and others to announce that there is going to be NO REFUSAL on impaired drivers every weekend this summer. If a driver is stopped and believed to be impaired the officer will transport that person to a medical facility for a blood sample. If that person refuses they will contact the District Attorneys Office and a search warrant will be drawn up. An on-call judge will then sign the warrant and a blood sample will be taken. The DWI numbers have grown this year and Constable Hayden has added a DWI unit to his staff. He has also asked Montgomery County Commissioners during this current budget hearing for additional officers to staff the DWI unit. With us being only halfway through the month the numbers are growing on impaired drivers. 108 arrests of which 70 are first-time offenders with the remaining repeat offenders,. With many DPS Troopers on the border, the numbers of DPS arrests seem less. However. many law enforcement agencies have picked up the slack to enforce traffic laws and look for impaired drivers.

The Haydens of east Montgomery County run a multigenerational family business: public service. Kenneth “Rowdy” Hayden, 49, is the area’s constable at Precinct 4 just as his father, the late Charles Hayden, was years ago. And marching behind dad and granddad are three sons making their own paths as first responders.

MAN WHO SET SPLENDORA BOY ON FIRE MAKES COURT APPEARANCE. Donald Collins, who is charged with murder in the burning death of Robbie Middleton, is set to stand trial in January. Collins was arraigned Thursday morning in the 359th District Court of Judge Kathleen Hamilton. His attorney requested a change of venue and Judge Hamilton gave him until October to file his briefs.

Boots don’t stomp on the Ranch Hill Saloon’s dance floor quite like they used to. For two decades, Montgomery County’s only gay bar has fought off intolerance, including violence, to provide the area’s LGBTQ folks with a place of refuge. Within its timber-covered walls, patrons have found camaraderie, love and...

The Montgomery County Precinct 3 Mosquito Abatement team was alerted of the first two West Nile virus positive mosquito samples of the season in a sample recently tested by the state. The two positive mosquito samples were both located in The Woodlands, one in 77380 and the other in 77382.

At 7:35 am, this morning the Montgomery County Dispatch Center received a call about a boat accident that had occurred south of the Calvary Rd. Bridge, on Lake Conroe. The Precinct 1 Marine Division responded to the area and learned that a Jet Ski, with two passengers (adult and juvenile), struck a bass boat that was being operated by a single occupant.

Nonprofit and local community group Good Brothers & Sisters of Montgomery County hosted its second annual Juneteenth event at Kasmiersky Park on Saturday. The organization’s founder, LaDon Johnson, estimated that the family-friendly event welcomed 400-450 people from the entire community throughout the day at the new location. He contributed the growth of the event to more awareness.

More than 100 youth from around Montgomery County took part in this year’s World’s Largest Swimming Lesson at the City of Conroe Water Park, Friday, June 18, 2021, in Conroe. The WLSL event occurs once a year where participating groups take part in the same swim lesson across 48 countries. Since beginning in 2010, the event has reached 320,000 people and serves as a platform to help the global aquatics industry work together to build awareness about the fundamental importance of teaching children to swim to prevent drowning.

After taking a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Montgomery’s old-fashioned, hometown Freedom Fest back in 2021. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 3 in Downtown Historic Montgomery with food, festivities, kid’s activities and more. “A huge shout out to the...

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