Local arrests and one conviction
Scene In Town, The Van Alstyne News do not print suspects’ names until or unless they are indicted or convicted.
Two law enforcement agencies have been busy with felony arrests and convictions. Many details have not been made available, as the local agency’s Public Information Officer (PIO) is swamped with other duties as well.
Van Alstyne PD
March 4 — Police arrested a Van Alstyne man on a single charge of Assault Causes Bodily Injury-Family Violence. Details on this and all arrests made since March 1 have not yet been made available. Grayson County Jail records show that this suspect posted bail of $10,000 in a surety bond with conditions for his release the next day. Jail records also show that this suspect was out on a surety bond w/ conditions for bail at $4,000 on another ACBI-FV charge. That earlier event is reportedly happened four months prior to this one.
March 4 — Police jailed a second Van Alstyne resident on a charge of Assault Causing Bodily Injury, plus unlawfully carrying a weapon and possession of marijuana. His bail was set at a total of $8,000, which he posted for his release the following day. Unlike the first suspect, this was the first time this suspect has been inside Grayson County Jail.
March 4 — Van Alstyne Police served an arrest warrant, issued by Dallas County, on a Mesquite female. The warrant charges her with Possession of Controlled Substance and carries a $5,000 bail. At the date of this writing (March 9) she has not paid bail nor been transferred to Dallas County, according to jail records.
March 4 — A Van Alstyne officer jailed a Sherman woman on two drug charges, or more specifically, possession of controlled substances. Her bail total $12,000, and she, too remains incarcerated in lieu of bail.
March 8 — Van Allstyne Police arrested a Van Alstyne female on a charge of Possession or Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia, She received her release later the same day after paying $431 cash fine.
March 8 — A Van Alstyne woman went to jail because of having not paid a previous court-ordered fine. The original charge was for Theft of Property between $500-$1,500, in 2009. Jail records show that she owed $940 in the previous fine, and that she laid that out and was released the same day.
March 8 — Police jailed a Blue Ridge woman on a charge of Possession of Controlled Substance. She paid her bail set at $5,000 by surety bond for her release.
March 8 — Van Alstyne police jailed a Howe woman on a charge of Driving while Intoxicated 3rd or More Offense. To be released for this offense, the suspect had to pay $20,000 in bail and qualified that with a surety bond with conditions.
Howe PD
Howe PD Chief Carl Hudman reported that on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, a Howe Police Department detective began an investigation into an allegation against 39-year-old Robert Brent Steedman Jr. for sexual abuse of a child. Steedman Jr. was acquainted with the victim’s mother at the time of the offense, which the victim said happened in Howe between 2017 and 2018. On February 7, Sergeant Keith Milks and Hudman interviewed Steedman Jr. and he confessed to the crime. The officers arrested Steedman Jr. for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and booked him into the Grayson County Jail.
On Feb. 27, 2023, Steedman Jr. pled guilty in the 397th District Court to Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child (Rape) and he was sentenced to 5 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. Steedman Jr., now of Honey Grove. shows in the Grayson County Jail records to have three count of rape filed against him.
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