October 17, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis announced today that Sergio Cardenas-Salinas, 30, of Houston, Texas, has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for leading an organized criminal operation responsible for a series of high-profile home …

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October 8, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis announced that Robert Crolley, 43, of Plano, Texas, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon Causing Serious Bodily Injury. This follows a …

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(McKinney, Texas) – Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis today announced that Kendall Thigpen-Watkins, 34, has been sentenced to life in prison for the attempted capital murder of his 8-year-old son. On June 23, 2023, McKinney police received a 911 …

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(McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’ office secured a 60-year, no-parole sentence for Shawn Darfour, 36, of Dallas, Texas, for repeated sexual abuse of a child after a jury found him guilty. Darfour had ongoing access to the child …

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September 5, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 50 year no-parole sentence for Quadriel Forest, 32, of Dallas, Texas for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child after a jury found him guilty. Forest was an …

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August 20, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a 30-year prison sentence for Denzel Johnson, 30, of Allen, Texas, after a jury found him guilty of Possession with Intent to Deliver more than 4 grams, but …

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June 25, 2024 (McKinney, Texas) – District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a life without parole sentence for Brandon Dale, 43, of Dallas, for his brutal robbery and murder of a Sachse father, after a jury found him guilty of …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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