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College Station police gives a shoutout on its Facebook page to citizens who called 9-1-1 last Friday (March 28) to report there was a woman at the Walmart store who was stabbed in the hand and struck in the eye with a closed fist. CSPD arrest reports say the woman’s boyfriend of 16 years stabbed and assaulted her over a period of several hours in their apartment. Then he forced her to walk with him to Walmart to get cleaning supplies, leaving behind two toddler aged children. The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment of her injuries. 36 year old Louis Anthony Hernandez was charged with family violence aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Hernandez remains jailed as of March 31 in lieu of bonds totaling $86,000 dollars. Arrest reports also say this is the ninth incident involving this couple since January. A Leon County man is held in the Brazos County jail without bond on a warrant charging him with sexual assault. That’s after College Station police arrested 50 year old Tyson Henson for sexual assault of a child. CSPD’s arrest report says the arrest started with the child’s mother checking the child’s cell phone and finding inappropriate text messages between the child and Henson. As of March 31, Henson remains held in lieu of bonds on the Brazos County charges totaling $300,000 dollars.

The 25th time a Bryan man goes to jail in 25 years, follows his arrest for possessing an estimated $90,000 dollars of cocaine and strangling a woman. BPD arrest reports say 48 year old Michael Hopson admitted to possessing the cocaine but denied strangling and assaulting a woman. Last Friday (March 28), officers responded to a disturbance at the man’s apartment where the woman reported being attacked. The woman allowed officers inside the apartment while she gathered some items. The arrest report says when the woman dumped a trashcan, that revealed the cocaine. As of March 31, Hopson remains jailed in lieu of bonds totaling $108,000 dollars. At the time of the arrest, Hopson was out on bond awaiting trials on felony charges of evading arrest in 2019 and soliciting prostitution in 2021. A College Station police officer stopping a car last Thursday night (March 27) because he learned the driver was wanted on arrest warrants, takes a passenger to jail after finding 2.99 pounds of vacuumed sealed marijuana. The passenger, 19 year old Aaron Bazy of Bryan, is out of jail after posting a $5,000 dollar bond. Jail records do not show that the driver was taken into custody on two warrants involving undisclosed charges. WTAW News has asked College Station police for the street value of the seized marijuana.

Two state legislative committees hold hearings on a bill that would take away College Station’s ordinance limiting the number of unrelated occupants living together. Senate Bill 1567 and House Bill 2797, which applies only to university towns, would limit the number of occupants regardless of relationship based on the size of bedrooms and meeting health and safety standards. Another section of SB 1567 would prohibit university towns from requiring a property manager to hand over a lease to determine the number of unrelated occupants. The senate’s local government committee unanimously passed SB 1567, while the house land and resource management committee has not voted as of March 28 on HB 2797. Click HERE to read and download SB 1567 as passed by the senate local government committee on March 25, 2025. The legislative committee hearings were reviewed during Thursday’s College Station city council meeting. Councilman David White said he would “encourage people to watch it (the hearings) because there were some just false statements that were made regarding our city.” Councilwoman Melissa McIlhaney said “It is shocking to me that we can have a state senator take gross misinformation presented from multiple sources and without verification move straight to vilification.” The senate bill was written by Texas A&M graduate Paul Bettencourt of Houston. He brought up during the senate committee hearing, vehicles being tracked outside homes suspected of violating College Station’s unrelated occupant ordinance. While Bettencourt said the tracking was done by the city of College Station, that activity has been conducted by a group of residents known as the College Station Association of Neighborhoods (CSAN). The house bill was written by a former Texas A&M student government speaker. Cody Vasut of Angleton said during the house committee hearing that College Station’s ordinance “discriminate(s), most acutely against college students” and it “restricts private property rights.” Vasut says the ordinance “is indefensible” and is “un-American”. Click below to hear comments from the March 17, 2025 senate committee hearing, the March 27, 2025 house committee hearing, and the March 27, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Listen to “College Station city council reaction after legislative committee hearings to end a limit of how many unrelated people can live together” on Spreaker.