BY MARY JANE FARMER

HERALD DEMOCRAT

Since Christmas Eve, 142 people were incarcerated in Grayson County Jail. During that same period, 104 people were released.

The breakdown in those numbers shows that 88 warrants in total were issued on 37 of those arrested, most of them Grayson County warrants. However, several people were also arrested on warrants issued out of Bexar, Collin, Dallas, El Paso, Lamar, Lubbock, Pampa, Roanoke, Tarrant and Travis counties, plus one man jailed as a fugitive from justice out of Missouri.

In such cases, the arresting officer will have a dispatcher call the issuing agency to first determine if that state will extradite the suspect. This means they ask if the party issuing the warrant will bring back the wanted person to that state. And in the instance concerning the fugitive out of Missouri, the dispatcher was told Missouri would extradite the wanted man.

One of the Grayson warrants charged the offender with two counts of not having registered as a sex offender as required by law, and one was charged by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles as a parole violator.

Twenty adults and four minors, between 17 and 20 years old, went to jail on driving while intoxicated charges, first offense. Another four were jailed on a second-offense DWI, and yet another four people were incarcerated on third-offense DWI charges. Ten were jailed on charges of public intoxication, and 10 more on drug charges involving marijuana, pills or other controlled substances.

One man was brought in Monday by the U.S. Marshal Service as a federal inmate.

Twenty-two people were jailed on new felony charges including assaults, thefts, weapons and burglaries. Nine were jailed on driving violations charges.

Five people spent Christmas and New Year's weekends in jail serving their sentences as weekenders, as allowed by their judges.

Some of these, such as "new felony" and "warrant" arrests, were of the same person or people, and so the numbers cannot be exact.

Of those released, 63 were people who posted surety bonds, the highest of which was $15,000 set on a man Denison police jailed on a charge of stalking. Three posted cash bonds.

Twenty-eight people laid out their time, and 12 people paid their fines before being released. A magistrating judge released three of them, at least one acting on the authority of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which had issued a parole violation warrant against a suspect. Two were released to other agencies, the Marshall County and Smith County sheriff's offices.

Four people were taken to a state prison to begin serving their sentences. One charged by TBPP with parole violation was transported to a facility to be held until TBPP determines his future, and one transported to Substance Abuse Felony Program, a court-mandated drug treatment program within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system.