State Representative Trey Wharton on WTAW

The College Station city council supports a Brazos County health district proposal to begin inspecting public pools that includes those located at hotels, apartment complexes, and those controlled by homeowners associations. Click HERE to read and download city background information. Click HERE to read and download the Brazos County health district’s presentation about a public pool inspection ordinance. Click HERE to read and download the Brazos County health district’s presentation about public pool permitting. The health district’s Holly Ulbrich says the inspections “aren’t out there to bring the hammer down on people. We’re mainly out there to educate them and get them into compliance.” The health district’s Kate Jackson says state law requires the city to pass an ordinance giving the health district permission to inspect an estimated 250 pools in College Station. The College Station council will be given a recommended ordinance after the city attorney’s office meets with health district administrators. Councilman David Wright, who was part of a unanimous vote, said “I for one am kind of alarmed that our public pools are not being tested.” The College Station council vote comes the month after four members of the Bryan council chose not to hear the health district proposal. Click below to hear comments from the March 27, 2025 College Station city council meeting:  

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.

A Bryan man who was placed on probation in October 2019 for a family violence aggravated assault that took place in October 2013 is now headed to prison. Brazos County district court records show 46 year old John Walker Jr., who was 34 when he caused serious bodily injury, admitted to three pages of probation violations. That includes failing to submit to drug tests or trying to alter test results 30 times over a three year period. In a plea agreement with the district attorney’s office, Walker was sentenced to three years in prison with credit for time served. And prosecutors dropped a charge of possessing a controlled substance that happened in 2023. In June of 2022, a Houston man was booked in the Brazos County jail on a charge of selling a two ton truck in the parking lot of Post Oak Mall with a fake title an altered vehicle identification number (VIN) for $47,000 dollars. On March 7, 40 year old Zachary Guyton admitted to selling a truck that turned out to be stolen from Houston. A plea agreement with the DA’s office sentencing Guyton to eight years in prison also includes guilty pleas to attempting to sell another vehicle with a fake VIN and possessing a fake title and a fake driver’s license. A spokeswoman in the DA’s office tells WTAW News the plea agreement also includes Guyton paying restitution. Online jail records show Guyton is still being held on four warrants from Travis County charging him with theft of service, theft of property, forgery, and identity theft.             News release from the Brazos County district attorney’s office regarding the disposition of criminal charges against Zachary Guyton: On March 7, 2025, Zachary Guyton of Houston, plead guilty and was sentenced by Judge Kyle Hawthorne of the 85th District Court to eight years in prison for the offenses of Tampering with a Government Record (x2), Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, and Theft of Property $30,000 – $150,000. On May 20, 2022, a resident of Somervell County met the defendant in the Post Oak Mall parking lot and purchased a 2022 Ford F250 for $47,000 cash. Upon returning to Somervell County, the victim discovered that the title of the vehicle he had just purchased was fraudulent. title. The College Station Police Department and Somervell County Sheriff’s Office were ultimately able to determine that the VIN number of vehicle purchased by the victim had been altered. The original VIN number was traced back to a vehicle that was reported stolen out of Houston, Texas, on May 11, 2022. The victim in the provided a picture of a fictitious driver’s license used by the defendant that contained Guyton’s actual photograph. On June 10, 2022, the College Station Police Department, with the assistance of the Montgomery County Auto Theft Task Force, arrested the Defendant after he attempted to sell another VIN swapped vehicle to an undercover officer. This vehicle was reported stolen out of Houston, Texas, on May 29, 2022. Upon arrest, the Defendant was found with an altered Texas motor vehicle title for the vehicle he was attempting to sell and a fictitious Texas identification card. The Montgomery County Auto Task Force is funded through a Texas Department of Motor Vehicles grant. The goal of the task force is to investigate motor vehicle thefts and to apprehend and prevent future crimes. In this case, multiple law enforcement agencies collaborated to apprehend the defendant and hold him accountable for his crimes that occurred throughout the State. Statement from Brazos County assistant district attorney Tonika Davis: “This defendant’s crimes spanned multiple counties and affected multiple victims. Through the collaboration of multiple law enforcement agencies and officers, the Defendant was apprehended and his fraudulent crimes were finally stopped.”