FORNEY, Texas — The Forney Police Department has filed 36 additional charges against four Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC) students and football players who were arrested on October 21, 2014, after allegedly committing a burglary of a vehicle in Windmill Farms and later apprehended in Forney attempting additional burglaries.
FORNEY, Texas — The Forney Police Department has filed 36 additional charges against four Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC) students and football players who were arrested on October 21, 2014, after allegedly committing a burglary of a vehicle in Windmill Farms and later apprehended in Forney attempting additional burglaries.
Arrested were 20-year-old Jordan Points of Heath, Texas, 19-year-old Joshua McKinnies of Katy , Texas, 22-year-old Thaddeus Stewart of Houston, Texas, and 21-year-old Lakai Robinson of Camdem, New Jersey.
Early Tuesday, October 21, 2014, the four allegedly committed a burglary of a vehicle in the 1000 block of Manasses Drive in Windmill Farms. The four were arrested later in Forney in the 100 block of Bowie Street after a Forney Police Department officer observed a suspicious vehicle and conducted a traffic stop.
The four were identified as the ones who committed the burglary in Windmill Farms and booked on Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office charges of engaging in organized criminal activity with bonds set at $7,500.
After an investigation by the Forney Police Department, it was found that three of the suspects —Points, Stewart, and Roberts— were connected to a string of burglaries on October 17, 2014, according to Forney Police Department Captain Jason Ray.
Search warrants were executed at the students’ dorms at TVCC in Athens, Texas, and stolen property was recovered which linked to Forney, Kaufman County, and Tyler. A stolen firearm from Forney was also recovered in Pasadena, Texas, which is near Houston, Texas.
Stewart and Roberts have since posted bond and have been released from the Kaufman County Jail on the original organized criminal activity charge. Arrest warrants have been issued for the two which include additional burglary of a vehicle charges, theft of a firearm, credit card/debit card abuse, and organized criminal activity.
Points remains in the Kaufman County Jail on the original $7,500 bond for engaging in organized criminal activity and three new charges for burglary of a vehicle, two counts of credit card or debit card abuse, six new counts of organized criminal activity, and one count of theft of a firearm. Bonds now total $72,000.
The four students have since been indefinitely suspended from the football team.
“We are aware of the situation and take all such allegations against our students seriously. The matter will be handled internally, as is our practice,” Mary Nicholson, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, said in a statement to inForney.com.
“TVCC athletic discipline procedures require automatic indefinite suspension,” she said. “Trinity Valley Community College is cooperating with the ongoing criminal investigation, and as such, has no further comment at this time.”
The Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals football team, ranked No. 3 nationally in the National Junior College Athletic Association, just finished their football season undefeated, 9-0, and are entering the semifinals of the Southwest Junior College Football Conference playoffs.
