June 18, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis announced that as a result of a joint state and federal investigation, Esmeralda Upton, 59, of Plano, pled guilty to four state Hate Crime charges related to an incident outside…
June 7, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis announced the indictments and arrests of three individuals related to the 2018 death of Julia Wells, 18, on the North Dallas Tollway. The Collin County Grand Jury returned three indictments…
June 5, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis announces the indictments of Sheldon Vonshey Evans, 38, of Atlanta, Georgia, related to the trafficking, kidnapping, and unlawful sexual contact with a 16 year old child in Richardson, Texas, in…
June 4, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 60-year sentence for Tranisa Watts, 26, of Dallas, for shooting her child’s grandmother at a Richardson Starbucks. Richardson Police Department was dispatched to the Starbucks on Renner…
May 29, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured Life in prison for Ocastor Shavon Ferguson, 35, a Jamaican National, for the murder of his girlfriend, Kayla Kelley. On January 12, 2023, a burned up car located…
May 16, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s Office secured a Life sentence for McKinney man, Joel Jesus Torres, 24, who fatally shot his fiancée. On November 14, 2021, McKinney officers were dispatched to a “shots fired” call…
April 25, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 31 year no-parole sentence for an abuser’s sexual assault of a child. Paul Wilbanks, 50, of Justin, Texas, was an adult who was known by and had…
April 16, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 52-year with no-parole sentence for an abuser’s repeated sexual assault of a child starting when the child was 9 years old, and continuing until the child was…
April 9, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 20 year sentence for a member of the Texas prison gang Tango Blast who assaulted a police officer while resisting arrest. Salvador Jove, 32, of Royse City,…
April 3, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 35 year prison sentence for long-time drug dealer Monica Gonzales, 37, of McKinney, Texas. On May 30, 2023, Detective Joe Arp of the McKinney Police Department conducted…
March 25, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secures a life with no parole sentence for child predator who claimed God told him to do it. Christopher Caudill, 46, of Dallas, Texas, was an adult who had…
March 19, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s Office secured a 35-year sentence for career drug dealer on parole, headed to prison for the 4th Time. On September 7, 2021, Plano Police Department Officer Ben Thurmond conducted a…
March 11, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s Office secured a Life sentence for Serial Predator, Pedophile, and Stalker, Deketric Charrontay Love, 27, of Mesquite, Texas, after a jury found him guilty of Burglary of a Habitation with…
March 6, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 55 year sentence in prison without parole for a Plano man’s decade-long, repeated sexual assault of a child. Lloyd Amos, 55, of Plano, Texas, was known by…
March 4, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 45 year no-parole sentence for an abuser’s repeated sexual assault of an 11 year old child. Nathanael Lane, 42, of Garland, Texas, was an adult who was…
February 27, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a life sentence for a home invasion serial rapist after the case was solved using forensic genetic genealogy. “This maximum sentence would not have been possible without the…
February 26, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 30 year sentence for shotgun ambush of Sachse police officers. Josiah Perez, 27, of Sachse, Texas, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for Aggravated Assault with…
February 21, 2024 Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis announced that Patrick William Travis, 26, of Lake Stevens, Washington, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the offenses of Sexual Assault of a Child and Indecency with a Child…
January 5, 2024 District Attorney Greg Willis announced that the Collin County Citizen Prosecutor Academy (CCCPA) Spring session will begin February 1st. Prosecutors are sworn to seek justice in every case, and the CCCPA offers a behind the scenes look…
December 12, 2023 (McKinney, Texas) – Stacey Jurik, 40, of Wylie, was sentenced to 32 years in prison for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child after a jury found her guilty, announced Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. “What Jurik…
