Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Local authorities arrested a 35-year-old man who was reported to be “agitated and armed” with a shotgun in the Jonesboro area on Monday, according to a press release by the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office.
Shortly after 2 p.m. on Monday, Coryell County deputies were dispatched to State Highway 36 and Farm to Market Road 217 in Jonesboro after a local law enforcement agent notified them about the man carrying the weapon.
When officers attempted to contact the male, who was later identified as Cory Currence, he threw the shotgun over a fence and ran through a field toward FM 217.
Soon after, deputies and Texas Department of Public Safety State Troopers arrived to assist. Local authorities located Currence’s vehicle in front of a residence on County Road 192. He eventually came to the door of the residence and was detained by deputies on Monday evening.
Currence was taken into custody and transported to the Coryell County Jail on charges of evading arrest or detention with a previous conviction of an unlawful possession of a firearm by felon and criminal trespass with a weapon.
Jonesboro Independent School District also warned parents via Facebook on Monday about a man who was identified as a potential threat to citizens in the community. The district said the school was secure and had not been threatened.
“He was on the outskirts of Jonesboro,” Jonesboro ISD Superintendent Matt Dossey said in an email. “Never a threat to the school or in the area of the school. We just took precautionary measures.”
During a subsequent search on Wednesday, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden K9 team located the shotgun Currence discarded while evading law enforcement, according to the sheriff’s office. The specially trained canine, K9 Jake, quickly located the empty weapon in a field of densely overgrown vegetation.
Currence was booked into the Coryell County Jail on Tuesday and is being held on a $22,500 bond.
